Nairobi Gallery
Colonial-era records office housing a black marker from which all of Kenya's road distances are measured.
This guide to Nairobi Gallery starts on a small black marker set into the floor beneath the octagonal dome, a spot some residents still refuse to walk over after dark, wrapped for decades in rumors of devil worship and taxi drivers who reroute around the junction outside. It traces that fear back to 1926 and a British motoring pioneer, Lionel Douglas Galton-Fenzi, who set the marker before becoming the first person to drive from Nairobi to Mombasa. It follows the building's own turn from colonial records office, nicknamed hatches, matches and dispatches, to the gallery it is today. Listen for how an ordinary measurement got mistaken for something sinister.
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