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A tale of names from Government Road to Moi Avenue

Nairobi’s Torr's Hotel at the junction of Delamere Avenue (Kenyatta Avenue) and Hardinge Street (Kimathi Street) in 1950s [File]

If roads could talk, what stories would they tell! Stories of great men who straddled them, villains who escaped justice, tyranny of the oppressors and misery of the oppressed. Such would be the compelling stories that would shape the destiny of nations.

But, roads have a way of telling stories; about a peoples’ political economic and social journeys. Moi Avenue in Nairobi has such a story.

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