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99 unusual facts about Nairobi


2006 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2006 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place between November 6 and 17, 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Adrian Flanagan

Adrian Flanagan (born October 1, 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a British author and sailor who, on May 21, 2008, achieved the first ever single-handed vertical circumnavigation (via the geographical poles) of the globe.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

In 1909, Gallen-Kallela moved to Nairobi in Kenya with his family, and there he painted over 150 expressionist oil-paintings and bought many east African artefacts.

Al Jamea tus Saifiyah

In 1984 a branch of Al Jamea tus Saifiyah was made in Karachi Pakistan & in 2012 a branch in Nairobi Kenya.

Ali Mohamed

In 1993 Mohamed also traveled to Africa to survey embassies in Africa such as the Nairobi, (Kenya) embassy which Al-Qaeda later bombed.

All-Africa University Games

The FASU All-Africa University Games were first held around the 1974-75 new year period in Accra, Ghana and again at the same time of year in 1978-79 in Nairobi, Kenya.

An Elephant Called Slowly

Arriving in Nairobi, they are met by Mr. Mophagee (Vinay Inambar) who has arranged transport for the couple - an old land rover series 2 which becomes something of a character in the film.

Anas al-Libi

The indictment accuses al-Libi of surveillance of potential British, French, and Israeli targets in Nairobi, in addition to the American embassy in that city, as part of a conspiracy by al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

Antonie Marinus Harthoorn

With Kenyan independence (1963) Dr Harthoorn's position as senior lecturer at the veterinary college in Nairobi was abruptly terminated (he was replaced without notice by one of his PhD students).

Arthur Frederick Dicks

This new direction saw him working as a set and costume designer in England, USA and Africa, spending some time in Nairobi.

Arya Samaj in Tanzania

The Samaj supported the "Dayanand Home" in Nairobi and provided scholarships to deserving students.

Battle of Mengo Hill

After brief stays in Nairobi and Addis Ababa he was given asylum in the United Kingdom where he stayed until death, under mysterious circumstances, in 1969.

Benjamin Pulimood

He represented the Mar Thoma Church in the World Council of Churches at Nairobi and is the recipient of the Manva Seva Award of the Mar Thoma Church.

Bernd Heine

In 1990 he received the Kenya Kiswahili Association Award in Nairobi, in 1994 he was Fellow of the Australian Research Council, in 1995 he received an award from the National Kiswahili Council of the Republic of Tanzania.

Black Star Nairobi

They eventually realize that the man’s murder might be linked to a later bombing of the Norfolk Hotel in downtown Nairobi, which leaves ten Americans dead.

Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga

St. Charles Lwanga School was opened in Nairobi in 1991 to provide support and education to children in the poorest sectors of the city, through education and working with street children.

China Daily

In December 2012, China Daily launched an Africa edition, published in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

Dan 'chizi' Aceda

Aceda, who is a trained architect, holds two degrees from the University of Nairobi: a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Studies attained in 2008 and a Bachelors Degree in Architecture attained in 2010.

Daniel Adams-Ray

Daniel David John Adams-Ray (born 18 August 1983 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a Swedish rapper, singer, and fashion designer.

Daniel Musyoka Mutinda

Mutinda worked with Kaplan and Stratton Advocates, Nairobi, before contesting the Kitui Central parliamentary seat in 1974.

Delhi Ridge

It is also responsible for earning Delhi the tag of the World's Second most bird-rich Capital city after Kenya's Nairobi.

Édouard Loubet

His collaboration with the Prince Aga Khan has also led him to develop a menu of the Mandhari - Nairobi Serena’s restaurant-, and coach the Delagoa’s chefs, the restaurant Polana Serena in Maputo, Mozambique.

Equator Records

Equator Records or Equator Sound Studios was originally known as East African Records, owned by Afcot Ltd, situated in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ferdinand Waititu

Ferdinard Waititu (born January 1, 1962 in Kibera, Nairobi) is the immediate former Member of Parliament for Embakasi Constituency and assistant minister for Water Services and Irrigation in the government of Kenya.

Foreign relations of Kenya

Chinese-Kenyan relations date back to 14 December 1963, two days after the formal establishment of Kenyan independence, when China became the fourth country to open an embassy in Nairobi.

Four years later, the British founded the settlement of Nairobi as a simple rail depot on the railway linking Mombasa to Uganda.

The government of Ethiopia established political links in the colonial period with Kenya's then British administration, and today it is one of several national bodies with a diplomatic presence in Nairobi.

Turkey has an embassy in Nairobi and from mid 2012 Kenya does have an embassy in Turkey but an ambassador is yet to be appointed.

Ever since, relations between the two nations have been warm; with both countries having had discussed previously in the Pakistan-Kenya Joint Ministerial Commission session which was hosted in Nairobi in 2004, about boosting bilateral trade and economic relations.

Furcifer

Additionally, F. pardalis has been introduced to Réunion and Mauritius, while F. oustaleti has been introduced to near Nairobi in Kenya.

Global Environment Outlook

Working together with the GEO Coordinating Team in Nairobi and the regions, the CCs research, write and review major parts of the report.

Global Young Greens

The official founding congress of Global Young Greens was held from January 16–20, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Halloween with the New Addams Family

Pugsley (Senior) is home from Nairobi medical school, where he is training to be a witch doctor.

Hans Rudolf Herren

Dr Herren was awarded an honorary professor title (Prof. h.c.) from Hubei University, Wuhan, PRC in 2004 and received an honorary doctorate (Doctor es Science Honoris Causa) from Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Heat of the Sun

Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya.

Henry Odera Oruka

Henry Odera Oruka (June 1, 1944, Nyanza Province–December 9, 1995, Nairobi) was a Kenyan philosopher who is best known for Sage Philosophy, a project started in the 1970s in an attempt to preserve the knowledge of the indigenous thinkers in traditional African communities.

History of the United Nations

While the principal headquarters of the UN remain in New York City, major agencies base themselves in Geneva, The Hague, Vienna, Nairobi and elsewhere.

Horace Campbell

He gave presentations on Peace and Reconstruction before the Uganda Society in Uganda, the Nairobi Peace Initiative (Nairobi, Kenya) and the Desmond Tutu Peace Center (Cape Town, South Africa).

Human trafficking in Kenya

City Council Social Services Departments in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu operated shelters to rehabilitate street children vulnerable to forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation; the government provided services to children exploited in the commercial sex industry at these facilities.

Hydroelectric power in Kenya

Even though the capital and largest city in Kenya, Nairobi is situated on high altitudes which is Southern Kenya, most of Kenya especially the counties in the North of Nairobi especially past Isiolo are either Arid or Semi-Arid and are therefore classified as ASAL Areas.

IAS Cargo Airlines

The aforesaid aircraft crashed on 14 May 1977 during the final approach to Lusaka Airport at the end of a non-scheduled all-cargo flight from London Heathrow via Athens and Nairobi when its right-hand horizontal stabiliser separated as a result of metal fatigue, causing a loss of pitch control and killing all six occupants.

Ilija Trojanow

With one interruption from 1977–1981, Ilija Trojanow lived in Nairobi until 1984, and attended a German-language school.

International Federation for Human Rights

The International Secretariat is based in Paris, with delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, to the European Union in Brussels, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to the African Union in Nairobi and to the Asean in Bangkok.

James Baba

He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations, obtained in 1975 from the University of Nairobi.

James Omondi

James Omondi Oduor (born December 30, 1980 in Nairobi) is a former Kenyan football defender who last played for Mathare United, and currently manages Karuturi Sports in the Tusker Premier League.

John Dawes

He was selected for Wales' first overseas tour later the same year and played in the Welsh rugby team's first match outside of Europe and its first in the Southern Hemisphere; played against East Africa in Nairobi on 12 May 1964, Wales winning 8–26.

John F. Landry

John Francois Landry is a British character actor born in Nairobi, Kenya.

John Guidetti

After one year with the Impala club, Guidetti joined Mathare United's academy, the MYSA organisation for sports development aid, in the slums of Nairobi.

Guidetti credits playing football with older children from the poorer slum areas of Kibera and Mathare Nairobi as an important step in his development on and off the field.

This meant that Guidetti had to leave BP, and he joined the Impala BrommaBoys football academy based in Nairobi.

John Neysmith

Under his direction, the Scouts Canada Brotherhood Fund raised money to buy a cow for a Street Scout group in Nairobi, and bought and installed computer systems for training Scouters in ten Southern African countries.

John Oballa Owaa

Tindinyo College has since been turned to a Major seminary and Theologicum, Later he joined St. Augustine Senior Seminary, Mabanga from 1980 to 1982 and St. Thomas Aquinas National Major Seminary, Nairobi) from 1982 to 1986.

John Robin Stephenson

He managed a club tour to East Africa in 1980-1981, during which his powers of diplomacy came to the fore during a difficult situation at Nairobi Airport.

John Scarlett

Shortly afterward, he was recruited by MI6 and served in Moscow, Nairobi (1973–1976), and Paris.

Kenya Law Reports

The affairs of the Council are presently managed from its secretariat situated on the Ground Floor of the Milimani Commercial Courts Building off Ngong Road in the Upper Hill (Community) Area of Nairobi.

Kenyan Boys Choir

The Kenyan Boys Choir is an African traditional and contemporary male voice choir based in the city of Nairobi, Kenya.

Kenyan Provincial League

However, the winners of the Nairobi and Central Provincial League automatically gained promotion to Division One.

Kilimanjaro Expedition

Head explains the team's route to Kilimanjaro, which mostly consists of a way from Surrey to Rottingdean, with a giant leap from Rottingdean to Nairobi (Head's map of Britain cuts off there, and is overlying his map of Africa), down to Tanzania, and then asking from there.

Kyoto Energy

Kyoto Energy was founded in Norway in 2007 by the Norwegian inventor Jon Bøhmer, and has had its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya since 2008.

Luise Radlmeier

In 1987, while teaching in Nairobi, Radlmeier's attention was drawn by the growing number of young refugees fleeing the Second Sudanese War who came to the Dominican Sisters' convent seeking relief.

Luke Piper

Luke Piper has travelled around the world to paint, including Nairobi via Western Sahara and Zaire in 1995, the Sahara desert in 1999 and 2000, Nepal and the Himalayas in 1998 and 2000–01, and Australia, New Zealand and Fiji in 2002–03.

Macho ya Mji

The comic, first published on 26 March 1998 by Sasa Sema Publications, stars two boys and a blind beggar in Nairobi.

Martin Kevan

Martin Kevan (March 19, 1947, Nairobi, Kenya – May 1, 2013, Montreal, Canada) was a Canadian actor, voice actor, and author.

Mathare Football for Hope Centre

MYSA, the centre’s host organization, is located in Mathare, a collection of slums in Nairobi, Kenya.

Matt Baugh

Baugh initially worked out of the British diplomatic office in Nairobi.

Medicom, the African Journal of Hospital Medicine

Medicom is the African Journal of Hospital Medicine, published in Nairobi, Kenya, by Update Publishers, founded and edited by Professor Peter Odhiambo.

Mobius Motors

Mobius Motors is an automaker that started in Mombasa, Kenya but is now based in Nairobi, Kenya that builds inexpensive vehicles "by integrating off-the-shelf parts within a durable and safe tubular steel frame"

MTV Africa Music Awards 2009

The 2nd MTV Africa Music Awards were held on October 10, 2009 at the gymnasium of the Moi International Sports Centre complex in Nairobi, Kenya and were hosted by Haitian-American artist Wyclef Jean.

Munyua Waiyaki

He arrived at Mombasa by sea from South Africa in 1951 afterwhich his father introduced him to Jomo Kenyatta and Mbiyu Koinange at a restaurant along Latema road in Nairobi.

Nairobi airport rail link

The Nairobi airport rail link is an infrastructure project in Nairobi, in Kenya.

Nazanine Moshiri

She is based at the channel's bureau in Nairobi in Kenya and is sometimes described as an East Africa Correspondent, although she has reported from numerous locations beyond this region.

Neville Chittick

In 1961, Chittick was appointed the first Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi.

Nicky Imber

Following the war, he opened an art school in Nairobi, Kenya, during which time he worked as a photographer and as a safari guide.

Noel Dossou-Yovo

Dossou-Yovo held the positions of Deputy Director at the Center of African Family Studies in Nairobi from 1983 to 1986.

Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

Bandon married Maybel Elizabeth Playfair, the daughter of Raymond Playfair, on 28 February 1933 at Nairobi Cathedral, in Kenya.

Prosper Masatu Makonya

Prosper Masatu Makonya is a Tanzanian sportsperson who was elected as president of the East and Central African Tae Kwon Do Confederation on 30 October 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya.

R. F. Patrick Cronin

In the early 1960s, he initiated an exchange program between McGill and local doctors in Nairobi, Kenya, and he later worked for the Osler Medical Aid Foundation, now known as the McGill International Health Initiative.

Rich, Famous and in the Slums

Her family have no idea she is a prostitute and think she is a receptionist in Nairobi and Angela Rippon goes to live with a lady who owns a hair salon and is HIV positive.

Samwel Mohochi

Samwel Mukira Mohochi born on June 26, 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya is a Kenyan human rights activist and attorney with extensive legal experience on human rights litigation in national courts and international advocacy before treaty monitoring bodies and the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Sibiloi National Park

These have been removed to Nairobi, but fossil non-humanoids are on display in the museum.

Sidney Swann

Swann moved to Nairobi as Archdeacon in 1926-27, to Egypt in the same position in 1928, and returned to England in 1933, where he became vicar of Leighton Buzzard.

Spiritual warfare

The conference gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, and yielded a consultation document as well as many technical papers published as the book Deliver Us from Evil.

Tanzanite

Shortly thereafter, the stones were shown to John Saul, a Nairobi-based consulting geologist and gemstone wholesaler who was then mining aquamarine in the region around Mount Kenya.

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

It was also MGM's first Tarzan film since 1942 and filmed in Nairobi, British East Africa.

Temple Lushington Moore

Moore's main contributions to architecture were his churches; he designed about 40 new churches, and the cathedral in Nairobi.

Testfaldet Goitom

Whilst competing in the 2009 CECAFA Cup in Kenya he was part of the Eritrea national football team which failed to return home after competing in the regional tournament in Nairobi.

The Call of the Entrepreneur

After the premiere in Grand Rapids, during the rest of 2007, The Call of the Entrepreneur premiered in Honolulu, London, Nairobi, New York City, Atlanta, Eldoret, Hong Kong, Kansas City, and Rome.

Tororo Priory

In 1980, Abbot Lambert assigned a Benedictine priest, then residing at Nairobi dependency of Peramiho, to Uganda to minister to the sisters.

Trypanosoma suis

The only isolated specimen known of this species is kept at the Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute, Nairobi.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1189

United Nations Security Council resolution 1189, adopted unanimously on 13 August 1998, after expressing its deep disturbance at the bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 7 August 1998, the Council strongly condemned the terrorist attacks and called on countries to adopt measures to prevent further incidents.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1569

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1569, adopted unanimously on 26 October 2004, after invoking Article 28 of the United Nations Charter, the Council decided to hold a two-day meeting on the situation in Sudan in Nairobi, Kenya.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1591

In the preamble of the resolution, the Council welcomed of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Nairobi, Kenya, by the Sudanese government and Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M).

Vincent J. McCauley

McCauley, in assuming the new responsibility, moved from Fort Portal to Nairobi.

Vuk Drašković

He first worked for the state newsagency Tanjug as its African correspondent stationed in Nairobi, Kenya, before taking a job as press advisor in the Yugoslav Workers Union Council (SSRNJ).

Westgate shopping mall

Westgate is an upscale shopping mall located in the Westlands neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya.

William de Villiers

Andries William de Villiers (born 9 July 1957 in Nairobi) is a South African author who wrote Messengers, Watchmen and Stewards, a biographical register of clergymen licensed, ordained for service, or otherwise active, in the Anglican diocese of Cape Town prior to the death of Archbishop William West Jones on 21 May 1908 (1998).

Wolfgang Petritsch

This event is being referred to as the 2004 Nairobi Summit on a Mine Free World, given the location of the event and the fact that it will mark the midway point between the Convention’s entry-into-force and the first deadlines for States to have cleared mined areas.

World Agroforestry Centre

The World Agroforestry Centre (known as the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF before 2002), is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978.

Yenlin Ku

After returning from the 1985 Nairobi conference, Ku and other women's studies scholars formed the Women's Research Program at National Taiwan University.


2011 African Cross Country Championships

The Kenyan team's jubilant celebrations led to the entire squad of 30 runners and officials missing their flight for Nairobi, scheduled later that day at Cape Town International Airport.

AllAfrica.com

It is available in both English and French and produced by AllAfrica Global Media, which has offices in Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos, Monrovia, Nairobi, and Washington, D.C..

Arap Bethke

Ricardo Arap Bethke Galdames (born March 12, 1980 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a Mexican actor.

Asmara International Airport

In April 2003, after improvements of the runways, Eritrean Airlines started regular services between Asmara and Frankfurt, Milan, Nairobi and Rome.

Bruce L. Edwards

In the past, he has served as Fulbright Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya (1999-2000), teaching at Daystar University, and as a Bradley Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC (1989–90), and as the S. W. Brooks Memorial Professor of Literature at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1988).

David Waweru

Events, dubbed BookTalkAfrica have already been held in Nairobi and Kampala where people queued waiting to speak to their favourite authors.

Frank Pullen

Pullen was a frequent visitor to Kenya where he created a racing complex in Nairobi, and embarked on an ambitious project there to build a township including schools and hospitals.

Gillian Condy

Gillian Condy, born 5 December 1952 Nairobi, is a South African botanical artist.

Ibrahim Hassan Addou

There, he served as the Dean of Benadir University in Mogadishu, and represented the ICU in its ongoing discussions in Khartoum and Nairobi with the Somali Transitional Federal Government.

Ingrid Munro

Ingrid Munro founded and manages Jamii Bora, a microfinance organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.

J. Anthony Holmes

Holmes has spent many of his thirty-year Foreign Service career on issues affecting Africa, including service as the economic-commercial section chief in Harare and in the economic section in Nairobi.

Janet Museveni

In February 1981 when Yoweri Museveni launched his guerrilla war against the government of President Milton Obote, Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983.

Jesse Aliganga

Aligana was working at the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

John Paul Oulu

Oulu was shot and killed while sitting in rush hour traffic in Nairobi on March 5, 2009 along with lawyer and founder of the Oscar Foundation, Oscar Kamau Kingara.

Kenya Army Infantry

In the early 1960s 3rd, 5th, and 11th Battalions of the King's African Rifles (KAR) were based at Nanyuki, Gilgil (seemingly in the same town as a British battalion) and Nairobi (Langata) in rotation.

Konza Technology City

Dalberg Global Development Advisors: An international strategy consulting firm with a Nairobi presence advising on economic strategy, tenant outreach, and organisational strategy for the KOTDA.

Mary S. Lovell

Her book on Markham, Straight on Till Morning, researched and written in under a year, after weeks of interviews with the subject in Nairobi, became an immediate international bestseller when it was published in 1987 and was twelve weeks on the New York Times Best Seller lists.

Matse Uwatse

In 2009 she won the Women in Media and Entertainment Awards for her "Excellence in Radio Presenting", and the African Voices Awards in Nairobi, Kenya as the "Most Outstanding Radio Presenter in West Africa" 2009.

Mexico and the United Nations

Mexico maintains permanent representation to the United Nations headquarters in New York City and to the other main UN agencies based in Geneva, Nairobi, Paris and Vienna.

Mike Sonko

Mbuvi became the First Senator of Nairobi after it was announced that, with 808,705 votes, beat his closest competitor, Margaret Wanjiru of the Orange Democratic Movement, who had garnered 525,822 votes, in the Nairobi senatorial election of 2013.

Multimedia University of Kenya

It is specifically located near the western side of the Nairobi National Park on Magadi Road in Nairobi.

Munyua Waiyaki

In 1962 he challenged Tom Mboya for the Nairobi East parliament seat but he lost by 2668 votes to 31407.

Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah

Also known as Abdul Rahman, Abu Abdul Rahman al-Muhajir, Abdel Rahman, Abu Turab, Ibrahim al-Muhajir, and Mohammed K.A., he was wanted by the United States government in connection to the August 7, 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.

Myles Ponsonby

In 1951, he entered the British government's Foreign Service, later transferring to the Diplomatic Service, and held posts in Egypt (1951), Cyprus (1952–53), Beirut (1953–56), Djakarta (1958–61), and Nairobi (1963–64).

Nairobi airport rail link

The government of Kenya has proposed a rapid rail connection between Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and central Nairobi.

Plane Stupid

The group protested on the roof of EasyGroup's headquarters in November 2006 at the same time as the United Nations Climate talks in Nairobi.

Roberts International Airport

In the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, the airport became Pan Am's principal African hub, with a non-stop service from New York JFK connecting at Robertsfield to such destinations as Dakar, Accra, Abidjan, Lagos, and Conakry, among others, and continuing on to Nairobi and even at times Johannesburg, so that for many years virtually every Pan Am passenger to Africa passed through Robertsfield.

Rothschild's giraffe

Various captive breeding programmes are in place — notably at the Giraffe Centre in Nairobi, Kenya — which aim to expand the gene pool in the wild population of Rothschild's giraffe.

Steve Bloom

Bloom's second book on Africa, Trading Places - The Merchants of Nairobi, features subsistence shopkeepers in the suburbs of Nairobi, including Kibera.

The Lion

With her idealistic view of the African savanna crushed, Patricia finally gives in to everyone's demands and leaves with the narrator to attend a boarding school in Nairobi.

Utrecht Marathon

A Nairobi-based businessman, Gert-Jan van Wijk, disapproved of the prize scheme and offered to personally make up the difference for foreign athletes, saying: "I think the Netherlands is afraid of competition, afraid of the unknown, afraid of different cultures. Holland is turning inside herself, instead of becoming stronger by taking up the competition".

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu (born June 22, 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.