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7 unusual facts about Nyeri


Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls High School

Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls High School was founded in the 1960s by the late Bishop Caesar Gatimu and was run by the Comboni mission in Karatina, Nyeri, Kenya.

Chris Murungaru

Dr Christopher Ndarathi "Chris" Murungaru (born August 19, 1954, Nyeri, Kenya) is a Kenyan politician, a former Member of Parliament for Kieni Constituency in Nyeri District and a former Minister of Transport.

John Christy

Prior to his scientific career, Christy taught physics and chemistry as a missionary teacher in Nyeri, Kenya from 1973 to 1975.

Mutahi Kagwe

Mutahi Kagwe (born January, 1958) is the Senator for Nyeri county in Kenya.

Olave Baden-Powell

In October 1939, Olave moved to Nyeri, Kenya with her husband, where he died on 8 January 1941.

The Kenya Scouts Association

Robert Baden-Powell, and his wife Olave, visited Kenya in 1935 on the way to South Africa, and spent time in Nyeri, near Mount Kenya, where his former personal secretary Eric Sherbrooke Walker ran a hotel.

The Nobelity Project

It is the first high school in the area of Mahiga near Nyeri.


Baden-Powell grave

The grave of Lieutenant-General The 1st Baron Baden-Powell and his wife, Olave, Baroness Baden-Powell, G.B.E., are in Nyeri in Central Province, Kenya, near Mount Kenya.

Josiah Mwangi Kariuki

His parents had earlier on been forced to leave their home area, Chinga, located in the Nyeri native reserve, back in 1928 to work in the white highlands.

Mutahi

Mutahi Kagwe (born 1958), Kenyan politician and Senator for Nyeri County

Randolph Whitfield, Jr

At Nyeri Provincial Hospital near Mount Kenya, he trained paramedics and clinical officers to combat eye diseases such as glaucoma and trachoma.


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