August 7th Memorial Park
Landscaped memorial garden with a granite wall of names, a blast-debris sculpture, and a visitors centre.
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About this audio guide
This guide to August 7th Memorial Park in Nairobi opens on an ordinary morning tea round inside Ufundi Cooperative House on August 7, 1998, minutes before a truck bomb went off in the car park where you now stand, bringing down the embassy next door and the building floor by floor. It follows a young analyst named Abraham through that morning, and the makeshift kitchens rescue crews set up beside the rubble as they dug through the wreckage. It also traces how this garden, its granite wall of names and river-stone paths, came to be built here in 2001. Listen for Rose, who poured tea that morning before the building fell.
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