Central Park Nairobi
Downtown green space centered on a crumbling marble monument to a strongman's decade in power.
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This guide to Central Park Nairobi opens at a dry fountain wrapped around a white marble tower, in a park long used as the city's rally ground. It traces a 1983 fountain built after a coup plot accusation against President Daniel arap Moi, and the four-sided marble monument raised beside it in 1988 to mark ten years of his rule, paid for partly through deductions from civil servants' salaries. Look for the ruling party's cockerel carved into its sides, and the giant hand gripping a club at its top.
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