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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 ...
View of Nairobi, 2007 Nairobi, 2011 Kibera, Nairobi, 2015 2000s. 2001 I&M Bank Tower built. Nairobi Women's Hospital founded. Coalition for Peace in Africa headquartered in Nairobi. Unrest in Kibera. 2002 Kiriri Women's University of Science and Technology established. World Urban Forum held. 2003 Nairobi Marathon begins. Dorman's Coffee opens.
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 ...
Aga Khan III. Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah ( Arabic: سلطان محمد شاه, romanized : Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh; 2 November 1877 – 11 July 1957), known as Aga Khan III ( Persian: آقا خان سوم, romanized : Āqā Khān Suwwūm ), was the 48th imam of the Nizari Ism'aili branch of Shia Islam. He was one of the founders and the first ...
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar ( Persian: آقامحمدخان قاجار, romanized : Âqâ Mohammad Xân-e Qâjâr; 14 March 1742 – 17 June 1797), also known by his regnal name of Agha Mohammad Shah ( آقا محمد شاه, Âghâ Mohammad Šâh ), was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, ruling from 1789 to 1797 as Shah. Originally a ...
The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) is a state corporation that manages museums, sites and monuments in Kenya. It carries out heritage research, and has expertise in subjects ranging from palaeontology, archeology, ethnography and biodiversity research and conservation. Its headquarters and the National Museum ( Nairobi National Museum) are ...
v. t. e. Murshid Quli Khan ( c. 1660 – 30 June 1727), also known as Mohammad Hadi and born as Surya Narayan Mishra, was the first Nawab of Bengal, serving from 1717 to 1727. Born a Hindu in the Deccan Plateau c. 1670, Murshid Quli Khan was bought by Mughal noble Haji Shafi. After Shafi's death, he worked under the Divan of Vidarbha, during ...
Their power was formalized as the Qongrat dynasty by Iltuzar Khan in 1804. Khiva flourished under Muhammad Rahim Khan (1806–1825) and Allah Quli Khan (1825–1840) and then declined. After Muhammad Amin Khan was killed trying to retake Sarakhs on March 19, 1855, there was a long Turkmen rebellion (1855–1867). In the first two years of the ...