Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Fairmont Norfolk is a historic hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, and is managed by the luxury hotel chain Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. The hotel has 170 rooms and three restaurants, and consists of five main blocks, each ranging from 1 to 2 stories high. The hotel has a signature Tudor style of architecture that has been maintained since its ...
Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru (? – 16 March 1922) was a Kikuyu woman [1] and a Kenyan political activist remembered for leading the protest after the arrest of Harry Thuku, that resulted in her death. Muthoni Nyanjiru was born in Weithaga, Murang'a, Kenya, although her date or year of birth are not recorded. At the time she was shot and killed in ...
Harry Thuku (1895 – 14 June 1970) was a Kenyan born in Kiambu, Mitahato village. As a politician , he was one of the pioneers in the development of modern African nationalism in Kenya . He helped found the Young Kikuyu Association and the East African Association before being arrested and exiled from 1922 to 1931.
Kenya National Theatre is part of the Kenya Cultural Centre, [1] a Semi Autonomous Government Agency under the Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture in Kenya. It is mandated to offer space for the rehearsal and staging of productions to both local and international repertoire. [2] It is based in Nairobi along Harry Thuku Road and ...
The earliest account of Nairobi 's / naɪˈroʊbɪ / history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people who were all displaced by the colonialists. The railway complex and the building around ...
v. t. e. On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [4] Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that started during the siege. [5] The attack resulted in 71 total deaths, [6] including 62 civilians ...
The Young Kikuyu Association ( YKA) was formed in Kenya on 10 June 1921, [1] as a break away organisation from the Kikuyu Association (KA). In July 1921 it was renamed the East Africa Association (EAA). Harry Thuku, who had previously been secretary of the KA, [2] felt that the KA was not demanding enough from the British Authorities in Kenya ...
In 1978, the hotel was purchased by the Sarova Group from Abraham Block and family. In 1998, a US$20 million renovation took place, and the Sarova Group restored the hotel's original name, "The Stanley Hotel". The hotel was the first place to sell Kenya's Tusker Beer in 1922.