The naming of streets, places and landmarks in colonial Nairobi was used to show the political, ideological and ethnic dominance of the British.
- Lecturer, Technical University of Kenya
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The place names of Nairobi’s informal settlements offer a glimpse into the realities of people who live there.
Plus, the history of how Nairobi’s informal settlements got their names. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Residents of Nairobi’s informal settlements use names as a way of voicing the issues that they struggle with every day.
In independent Kenya, road renaming happened to erase the names of the colonisers and to celebrate the new heroes: Kenya’s political leaders and freedom fighters.
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