Uhuru Gardens National Monument & Museum
Memorial park where the independence flag rose in nineteen sixty three, reclaimed from decades of encroachment.
The guide to Uhuru Gardens National Monument and Museum in Nairobi starts with a puzzle: for years, nobody could say for certain how much of the sixty-eight-acre birthplace of Kenyan independence the public still actually owned. It revisits the midnight of December 12, 1963, when the Union Jack came down and Kenya's flag rose for the first time as Jomo Kenyatta was sworn in, then follows the quieter story of how private developers fenced off pieces of this same ground in the decades after. It traces the effort to sort out what had been lost and what could still be reclaimed. Stand near the fig tree marking the flag's original spot as you listen.
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