Chiromo Road in Nairobi runs from the Museum Hill overpass coming from Uhuru Highway to the Delta Towers/ Rhapta Road intersection in Westlands. The University of Nairobi's College of Biological and Physical Sciences is more commonly known as Chiromo Campus.
Turns out that the name "Chiromo" is a Chichewa word which means "the joining of the streams". In this case, the village of Chiromo in Southern Malawi is at the confluence of the Shire River and the Ruo River.
When Ewert Grogan was walking from Beira to Cairo, he stopped in Chiromo where a bunch of Frenchmen were making whisky from sugarcane, and was impressed
by the wild beauty of Chiromo. Years later, when he built a house in Nairobi, he called it "Chiromo" after the village in southern Malawi. Chiromo house is supposed to be at the confluence of the Nairobi River and the Kirichwa River though it is not apparent from the map that they even connect. According to writer Douglas Kiereini, the house now hosts the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nairobi.
Chiromo Road in Nairobi runs from the Museum Hill overpass coming from Uhuru Highway to the Delta Towers/ Rhapta Road intersection in Westlands. The University of Nairobi's College of Biological and Physical Sciences is more commonly known as Chiromo Campus.
Turns out that the name "Chiromo" is a Chichewa word which means "the joining of the streams". In this case, the village of Chiromo in Southern Malawi is at the confluence of the Shire River and the Ruo River. 
When Ewert Grogan was walking from Beira to Cairo, he stopped in Chiromo where a bunch of Frenchmen were making whisky from sugarcane, and was impressed
by the wild beauty of Chiromo. Years later, when he built a house in Nairobi, he called it "Chiromo" after the village in southern Malawi. Chiromo house is supposed to be at the confluence of the Nairobi River and the Kirichwa River though it is not apparent from the map that they even connect. According to writer Douglas Kiereini, the house now hosts the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nairobi.
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