John Michuki Memorial Park

This guide to John Michuki Memorial Park in Nairobi traces the promise environment minister John Michuki made after finding this stretch beside the Nairobi River, near Kijabe Street, turned into a stinking, feared dumpsite: that he would not stop until people were fishing again in the Nairobi, Mathare and Ngong rivers. You'll hear how he pulled seventeen government ministries into the cleanup and how he died in February 2012, before the work was finished, leaving the park to carry his name rather than the dump's. Listen for the eighty-eight tree species now shading office workers who eat lunch beside the glass amphitheatre.