1.Mbotela Estate
Named after Tom Mbotela who was a councilor in the city before independence. He was killed by the Mau Mau in 1952. He was an uncle to Leonard Mambo Mbotela.
2.Mathare
Before Kenya’s independence, Asians owned the area now known as Mathare, a village dating back to the year 1921. When the Emergency was declared in 1952.Mathare Valley was believed to harbour a Mau Mau core.
3.Shauri Moyo
It is a land that has produced greatest leaders in Kenya’s history was the main settlement for British American Tobacco workers and was also a resting place for European’s horses during the colonial days.
Sensational rumba artist Daudi Kabaka also wrote a song about the slum Shauri Moyo.
The name is a Swahili word for “consult your heart.” Africans had to consult their hearts to determine whether they would stay or not when housing became a problem. people were asked to choose whether or not to move into the horse houses by the colonial masters.
Shauri Moyo as well houses Kenya’s largest meat joint, Burma, which was started in 1939 during the Second World War. It is named after Burma—now called Myanmar.
4.Jericho
After Kenya’s independence, was formed as a settlement specifically for the African working class.It was built with help from the Israeli government.
Jericho was home to the late Kisoi Munyao, the man who hoisted the Kenyan Flag on Mt. Kenya on 12 December 1963 during independence day. It was also home to the late,[1] the late Bildad Kaggia, Mzee Teacher (Karate legend). Robert Napunyi Wangila is still the only Kenyan Olympic boxing gold medalist in 1988 summer Olympic games.
5.Kaloleni
Kaloleni/Ololo was built by Italian prisoners of war on behalf of the British.Historical figures such as nationalist leader Tom Mboya, former Ugandan President Milton Obote and Charles Rubia, the first African mayor of Nairobi, once lived in this neighborhood.
Residents recall various historical moments with a mixture of pride and nostalgia: Queen Elizabeth of England opened a clinic in Kaloleni in 1952, and Senator Robert Kennedy gave a speech here in 1969.
The community hall was originally used as a center of the independence movement, and later as Kenya’s first parliament building.
