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Kileleshwa is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is located approximately 5.2 kilometres (3 mi) from Nairobi's central business district . The neighbourhood was originally a low-density leafy suburb but after a change in zoning regulations in the early 2000s, there has been significant mushrooming of high-rise flats in the area.
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 ...
Nairobi is also the setting of many of the novels of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya's foremost writer. Nairobi has been the set of several other American and British films. The most recent of these was The Constant Gardener (2005), a large part of which was filmed in the city. The story revolves around a British diplomat in Nairobi whose wife is ...
Nairobi Arboretum is located along state house road in the area of Kilimani, Nairobi, Kenya. It was founded in 1907 by Mr. Batiscombe in a bid to try out new forestry trees. [1] It was later gazetted as a national reserve in 1932 by the government and issuance of a title deed was later conducted by the commissioner of lands to the government in ...
The Village Market is a large shopping, recreation and entertainment complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.It accommodates over 150 stores outlets covering 210,000 square feet (20,000 m 2) of retail space, 20,000 square feet (1,900 m 2) square feet of office space, in addition to recreation and entertainment facilities.
Kawangware (Swahili: [kawaŋˈgware]) is a low income residential area in Nairobi, Kenya, about 15 km west of the city centre, between Lavington and Dagoretti. Description. According to the 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census, Kawangware's population was 133,286 people at this time.
Toi Market. Toi Market is an open-air retail market located on the outskirts of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. The market sits on a three-acre plot on Suna Road, a by-street to Ngong Road which runs almost the length of Nairobi, from the Lang'ata area into the center of the city. From its inception until it was razed by gangs during post ...
40,286/km 2 (104,340/sq mi) Kariobangi is a low-income residential estate in northeastern Nairobi. It consists of both apartments and slum -type dwellings. The name Kariobangi is believed to have come from an English phrase " Carry your bags " that was used by a white settler during the colonial period, that African natives mispronounced. [2]