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At Lang'ata Cemetery on Langata Road is buried a freedom fighter and great Pan-Africanist by the name Ras Makonnen.
He was born Nathaniel Thomas Griffiths in the Caribbean state of Guyana but changed his native name to Ras Makonnen as symbolic gesture to identify with his African roots and the struggle for Black liberation.
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