People/Places
What does the name of the city, Nairobi, mean?
Place of sweet water.
How do the City Park cemeteries challenge anti-urbanism in colonial Kenya?
They show Africans' permanence and belonging in Nairobi.
Which political ideology aims to make African residents feel like they don't belong in Nairobi?
Anti-Urbanism
Why is Joseph Murumbi remembered differently from Pio Gama Pinto?
Murumbi is celebrated culturally, while Pinto's politics were sidelined.
Why does Ng'weno describe the Commonwealth war graves as both remembrance and forgetting?
Europeans were honored, while many Africans were ignored or forgotten.
What is the constant cycle of building and demolishing infrastructure that keeps Nairobi looking unfinished?
The "New New Road"
Which rivers feed the Nairobi River, on the banks of which river is much of Nairobi built?
The Ngong and Mathare Rivers.
New structures come down to increase "progress"; what does this ensure?
That the promised urban future for Nairobi stays out of reach.
What simile is used as a symbol for performing labor to claim a home?
Why do modern activists connect with Pio Gama Pinto's memory?
His ideas still relate to justice and equality struggles today.
Besides physical eviction, how else does Anti-Urbanism displace residents?
Time
What is the nickname of the dangerous topsoil that causes so many buildings to collapse in the plains region of Nairobi?
"Black Cotton"