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Why State House was built on a hill

State House Nairobi

A careful analysis of early odiero settlers reveals one thing about their choice of places to build their homes.

One, they never lived in the Eastlands where black cotton soil was not conducive for creating shrubbery- the kind you find in the leafy suburbs. Eastlands was thus reserved for miros, creating a problem for Kenya’s first black lawyer, C.M.G. Argwings-Kodhek and his mzungu wife, Mavis Tate, an Irish nurse with whom he returned to Kenya after his studies abroad in 1952.

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