Same stadium, different occasions: Why Afraha is significant to 2007-08 post-election events

Eight years ago, Nakuru County received hundreds of thousands of post-election violence victims, with the Afraha Stadium as the holding ground.

With tents covering the usually green grounds, the occupants were survivors of the brutal violence. The stadium was home to hundreds of women who had lost their husbands, and children who did not know the whereabouts of their parents. The suffering was too much.