Kisumu is the largest city in Western Kenya and is the capital city of the Lake Region Economic Block which encompasses 15 out of the 47 counties in Kenya. The Kisumu Metropolitan Area with about 1.3 million people is the third largest metropolitan city in Kenya after the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa. Officially known as Kisumu City, Kisumu is the Kenyan inland port city on Lake Victoria and the capital city of Kisumu County, Kenya. At an elevation of 1,131 m (3,711 ft), the city has an estimated population of 600,000, while the metropolitan region comprising the city and its suburbs and satellite towns of Maseno, Kondele and Ahero was estimated at over 1.5 million as of 2017. Kisumu is the principal city of western Kenya, the immediate former capital of Nyanza Province, the headquarters of Kisumu County and the headquarters of the Lake Region Economic Block, which is a conglomeration of 15 counties in Western Kenya. It is the largest and most important city in the Western Kenya. Kisumu International Airport serves the city with regular flights to Nairobi and other neighboring cities such as, Mwanza, and Kigali.
Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, independence activist, Cabinet Minister and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya. He spearheaded the negotiations for Independence at the Lancaster House Conferences and was instrumental in the formation of Kenya's independence party, KANU, which he served as its first Secretary General. He laid the foundation for Kenya's capitalist and mixed economy policies at the height of the Cold War and set up several of the country's key labour institutions.
Africa Nazarene University (ANU) is a private Christian-founded university in, Kenya, and an affiliate of The Church of the Nazarene Colleges and Universities around the world. ANU is fully accredited by the Commission for University Education and the International Board of Education (IBOE).
Kamukunji Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of seventeen constituencies of Nairobi County. It consists of central to eastern areas of Nairobi. Kamukunji constituency has common boundaries with Pumwani Division of Nairobi. The entire constituency is located within Nairobi City Council area. The constituency has an area of 12 km². It was known as Nairobi Central Constituency at the 1963 elections, but has had its current name since the 1969 elections.
Ol Donyo Sabuk is a mountain and an adjacent small town near Thika Kenya. The town is located in Kyanzavi Division, Machakos County. The peak, height 2,145 metres (7,037 ft), was named by Maasai pastoralists, meaning big mountain. The Kikamba name, Kiima kya mboo, means Buffalo Hill or Mountain. Buffalo is called Nyati or "Mboo" in Swahili,. The town stands at the edge of Machakos County.
HF Group, whose official name is Housing Finance Company Limited, but is commonly referred to as Housing Finance, is a mortgage finance provider in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. The company is the only mortgage company regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya, the central bank and national banking regulator.
Victoria Commercial Bank (VCB) is a private bank in Kenya. It is licensed as a commercial bank, by the Central Bank of Kenya, the Central Bank and national banking regulator.
Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel. The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street. It was established in 1965. It holds 40,000 volumes. It was established by an Act of the Parliament of Kenya in 1965 and was placed under the office of the Vice President and the Minister of Home Affairs. It is currently under the office of the Vice-President and State Department for National Heritage and Culture. The Kenya National Archives building also houses the Murumbi Gallery which contains African artifacts that were collected in the 19th century.
The Tom Mboya Monument is along the Moi Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya. It was erected in 2011 in honour of Tom Mboya, a Kenyan minister who was assassinated in 1969. The monument stands about twenty meters from where Mboya was murdered. The statue stands at not less than ten meters from ground level. Since its unveiling, the monument's location has proven to be one of the most popular rendezvous currently available within the Nairobi CBD.
Dr. Fredrick Lawrence Munyua Waiyaki was a Kenyan politician. He served as Minister for Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as a Member of Parliament for the Kasarani Constituency.
Evans Odhiambo Kidero is a Kenyan politician and former Governor of Nairobi County. He served as CEO of Mumias Sugar Company for 8 years, resigning in 2012 to join elective politics.
Susan Mboya is a corporate executive and philanthropist who is the Principal and International Advisor for Navigators Global a Washington DC based consulting firm. Susan holds a number of board positions including the Chair of Liberty Group, a publicly traded company in the nairobi stock exchange. Susan is the immediate former President of the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and the group director of the Eurasia Africa Group (EAG) for women’s economic empowerment at Coca-Cola. She is also the former First Lady of Nairobi County, Kenya's largest county and the capital city and economic centre of Kenya. She is married to the first Governor of Nairobi, Dr. Evans Kidero, and is the daughter of the late Tom Mboya, a Kenyan nationalist leader, and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya and the late Pamela Mboya, a renowned diplomat who was Kenya’s representative to UN Habitat. Tom Mboya was a well-known trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, and a Cabinet Minister in Kenyas first post-independence Government. She is also the Founder of the Zawadi Africa Educational Fund, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides scholarships and leadership development training to academically gifted, marginalized African girls to enable them to attend top colleges and universities around the world with the objective of creating a pipeline of African female leaders. The Zawadi Africa program is based on the Africa Student Airlifts program launched by her father and President John F. Kennedy in 1959 that enabled luminaries including Barack Obama Sr, father of President Barack Obama, and Professor Wangari Mathaai to study in the U.S.
Mwalimu Cooperative Savings & Credit Society Limited, also known as Mwalimu National Sacco Limited, but often referred to as Mwalimu Sacco, is a savings and credit co-operative society (Sacco) in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. It is an institutional Sacco, composed of (a) the staff of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) (b) TSC teachers in secondary and tertiary institutions (c) TSC teachers in elementary schools (d) the staff of Mwalimu National Sacco Limited and (e) the spouses of the above members, when formally, gainfully employed. The society is licensed and regulated by the Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA).
The Stanley Hotel is a five-star hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the oldest hotel in the city, having been established in 1902 by English businesswoman Mayence Bent, when the city was a railway halt. It is named after Sir Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh explorer who is best known for his explorations of central Africa and his successful search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
Eastmatt Supermarkets, often referred to simply as Eastmatt, is supermarket chain in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community.
Pamela Mboya was a Kenyan political activist and diplomat, the wife of government official Tom Mboya.
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London districts of Pimlico and Victoria. The area has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are the generally accepted ones of: Vauxhall Bridge Road to the north-east, the river Thames to the south, the Victoria railway line, Buckingham Palace Road/Buckingham Gate/Grosvenor Gardens to the west and Lower Grosvenor Place/Bressenden Place to the north. Victoria is a vaguely defined area, but is generally used to refer to streets immediately around the station of that name.
The Latema road blast was a minor terror incident that occurred on 26 January 2019 on Latema road in Nairobi CBD. The attack occurred after luggage containing an improvised explosive device detonated while it was being carried on a mkokoteni cart, injuring two people.
Kagure Wamunyu, is a Kenyan civil engineer and urban planner, who serves as Senior Director of Strategy at Bridge International Academies, based at the organisation's headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya's capital and largest city.
