Benson Kimati, a newspaper vendor on Kimathi Street vividly recalls that the Stanley Hotel, Elite Digital Camera shop, which is adjacent to the Stanley, Maru Italian shoe shop on Corner House and ...

Think Kenyatta Avenue, Muindi Mbingu or Kimathi ... near the Nairobi River was extra swampy. Gachanja recalls that in the 1950s, there was a popular Indian curry house called Friends Corner ...

Kimathi Street is one of Nairobi ... of Emperor’s Cinema, then Nairobi’s swankiest movie theatre. Then there’s The Sarova Stanley, majestically tucked in a corner plot since the turn ...

Nairobi — NAMED AFTER DEDANI KImathi, the legendary Mau Mau leader and the icon of African struggle against colonialism, Kimathi Street should embody freedom, human dignity and liberty.