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72-year history of death and tears of Nairobi’s Woodley estate

Colonial Nairobi City Mayor Charles Woodley established Woodley Estate in 1950. [File, Standard]

How can so much death, pain, power and history be packed in a single city estate?

When colonial city mayor Richard Woodley established an urban estate 72 years ago, his plans were that each of the 300 tenants would live there happily ever after. But a strange curse seems to have been preying...