Uhuru Park

It contains an artificial lake, several national monuments, and an assembly ground which has become a popular skateboarding spot on weekends and also a location for local skateboarding competitions (best trick contest 2017), catering to Nairobi's growing skate scene.

It is infamous as the site where protest against illegal land grabbing was violently broken up by the Moi regime.

The park was reopened to the public on 30th March 2024 by Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja.

In 1989, Wangari Maathai and many of her followers held a protest at the park, attempting to stop the construction of the 60-storey Kenya Times Media Trust business complex.

[5][6] In August 1996, a group led by a Catholic cardinal and Archbishop Maurice Michael Otunga burned a heap of condoms in Uhuru Park.