Waiyaki Way

When Nairobi was growing into a city one of the outlying borders was Ainsworth Bridge. Along this route lay a dirt track and almost parallel, the original railway line leading away from railway station. The train used to chug up the the hill that was known Kirungii, making such a racket that Mrs Grogan who lived at the bottom of the hill at the University of Nairobi’s Chiromo campus persuaded her husband Colonel Ewart Grogan to get the railway tracks moved. He did, and so the railway line was rerouted to pass through Kibra. In time, the dirt track became a road and then a modern day highway that we know as Waiyaki Way – named after Waiyaki Wa Hinga, an anti-colonial chief from the Dagoretti area, who fought the British and was buried alive in 1892 in Taita Taveta by officers of the Imperial British East Africa (IBEA) Company

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