Kaloleni

Barack Obama senior, nationalist leader Tom Mboya, former Ugandan President Milton Obote and Charles Rubia, the first African mayor of Nairobi, once lived in this neighborhood. Queen Elizabeth of England opened a clinic in Kaloleni in 1952, and Senator Robert Kennedy gave a speech here in 1969. Popularly known as Ololoo, Nairobi’s Kaloleni Estate’s history dates back to the colonial era and was built by Italian prisoners of war on behalf of the British. Kenya’s founding President Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya and former Ugandan President Milton Obote at one point convened various social and political meetings there.