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Woodley estate recast into the modern day happy valley

By Charles Ouko

NAIROBI, KENYA: The story of Nairobi’s  leafy Woodley suburb comes as close to the Happy Valley narrative as you can get.  It  is intricately intertwined with the country’s chequered history  with some of its more famous residents being at the centre of  public personal tragedies and triumphs in almost equal measure.

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