Jeevanjee Gardens

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Jeevanjee Gardens

***** Location: Nairobi, Kenya
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Earth, Humanity

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Explanation

Jeevanjee Gardens was founded by Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee, an Asian-born entrepreneur in Kenya. It is the only park in the city that is directly owned by the people, having been donated to the poor people of Nairobi as a resting area (the park was private property and it is held in trust for the people of Nairobi).
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Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee
was born in Pakistan in 1856, and went to East Africa in 1890.

He was a pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist in Kenya, building the Jeevanje Gardens, and most of Nairobi when the city was a sprawling township. He provided many services to the Colonial Government; but grew to challenge the settler regime in search for greater equity and equality of opportunity, for Indians and eventually all Kenyans. He developed the East Africa Indian National Congress, and so laid the foundations for an organised anti-colonial movement.
source : msupress.msu.edu


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Things found on the way


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Jeevanjee Garden--
blooms of Jacaranda give
the park a purple look

September morning--
first blossoms scatter on
clean Jeevanjee paths

Jeevanjee Garden--
dusty foot print on a flattened
purple blossom


Jeevanjee Garden--
a jacaranda flower
rests on the garbage

Jeevanjee clean up--
gravel and jacaranda
on the wheelbarrow


Jeevanjee garden is maintained by the City council. Each morning, the garden is swept clean, mainly the paths. I used the word 'clean' because in the morning when the paths are clean, the 'first' blossoms to fall after stand out. In the evening or at night when I pass there, there are so many blossoms scattered everywhere and you can hardly notice another one falling ...

Caleb David Mutua
Kenya Saijiki Forum, September 2010




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Jeevanjee Gardens --
Queen Victoria looks on
heirs of her subjects

Isabelle Prondzynski


Queen Victoria in the WIKIPEDIA !


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Related words

***** Nairobi City


***** Jacaranda (tropical tree)



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