All Saints’ Cathedral Nairobi
English-Gothic stone cathedral, its basement once a sanctuary for mothers of jailed activists.
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This guide to All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi centers on April 1992, when Kenyan security forces surrounded the building for three days while dozens of mothers sheltered in its basement. It traces their hunger strike at Uhuru Park led by Wangari Maathai, demanding freedom for sons jailed under President Daniel arap Moi, and the riot police crackdown on the third of March that sent them here instead. Three of the mothers, facing the officers that day, invoked an old and devastating curse.
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