Tom Mboya Memorial Statue
Bronze figure of an assassinated statesman, standing near the spot where he was gunned down in nineteen sixty-nine.
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This guide to the Tom Mboya Memorial Statue in Nairobi opens in a police cell four days after Nahashon Njenga shot the thirty-eight-year-old cabinet minister outside a pharmacy on what was then Government Road, in July nineteen sixty-nine. It follows Njenga's trial, his secret hanging that November, and his insistence to the end that he hadn't pulled the trigger and that Mboya had been his friend. For more than fifty years that's where the official story stopped. Stand by the bronze figure, itself vandalised more than once, and you're standing inside a question Kenya still hasn't answered.
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