Uhuru Park

Uhuru Park

Uhuru Park is a recreational park adjacent to the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya. It contains an artificial lake and an assembly ground used for occasional political and religious gatherings. It is infamous as the site where protest against illegal land grabbing was violently broken up by the Moi regime.

In 1989, Wangari Maathai near single handedly saved the park from being bulldozed and developed in to a 60 floor businessplex.

In August 1996, a group led by a catholic cardinal and archbishop Maurice Michael Otunga burned condoms in Uhuru Park [ [http://www.ifex.org/fr/content/view/full/77499 International Freedom of Expression Exchange] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/index.php The Green Belt Movement]
* [http://www.wangarimaathai.or.ke/ Wangari Maathai]


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