Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary

This guide to Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary in Nairobi opens beneath a stadium roof and a putting green built where forest once stood, then rewinds to 1932, when this ground was first set aside for protection. It follows a decades-long fight against encroachment, from a 1990s plan to carve the forest into building plots, stopped by a doctor named Imre Loefler, to forged title deeds still circulating today, and a more recent dispute over a golf range built inside the sanctuary itself. Listen for the quiet where a resort was once planned.