From Jumapili to Jogoo, Meru and Thika estates bear tags that baffle locals

Street in Meru town [Phares Mutembei, Standard]

There was a scramble for building space in the area, as Miiriga Meru (new clans) descended on the land while the colonial administrators prepared to leave.

Barnabas Nkandau, 74, says among those scrambling for space to settle were Nubians mostly from Abyssinia or Ethiopia. But the locals were at first unwelcoming. “The Nubians had helped in the construction of the railway and infrastructure in Meru and other areas. As the whites left, the Nubians...