Today Wambugu, who lives and works in Nairobi, faces a different sort of obstacle.
This week police raided a Nairobi slum and shot dead at least 22 suspects.
Matt Briden(ph), a Nairobi-based analyst who keeps tabs on Somalia, describes it this way.
At 15, Joan worked as a maid in a town a few hours from Nairobi.
The daughter of a doctor, Bindi spent time growing up in Nairobi, Britain and Canada.
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With us on the phone from Nairobi is Douglas Okwatch, editor of the East African Standard.
At Mombasa station, however, the overnight train to Nairobi is already several hours late.
The Ethiopian Airlines Dreamliner flight carried passengers from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, Kenya, the company said.
He is an MP who represents Kibera and, in fact, a large area of Nairobi.
CNN's Nima Elbagir in Nairobi, Kenya and Amir Ahmed in Atlanta contributed to this story.
And Nairobi's technology innovation centre, iHub, is run by a woman - Jessica Colaco.
Early on Saturday, small groups of Kenyatta supporters celebrated in Nairobi, hooting car horns and singing.
In Nairobi he is a very influential voice in the world of Kenyan athletics.
This led to rioting in Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu earlier this month.
Jubilant Kenyatta supporters flooded the streets of downtown Nairobi, honking horns, blowing plastic noisemakers and chanting.
In 2011, Ntaiya moved to Nairobi, Kenya's capital, with her husband and two young sons.
Nairobi was on the Maasai plains, at the point where the plains joined the Kikuyu highlands.
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The workshop is jointly organized by the UNESCO Dar es Salaam and Nairobi Offices.
Associated Press reporters Tom Odula in Nairobi and Daud Yussuf in Garissa contributed to this report.
The site was launched during this week's meeting of Unep's governing council in Nairobi.
Fortunately for me, I met a former Kenyan member of parliament on the plane to Nairobi.
It began flying to six new destinations in 2012: Tripoli, Shanghai, Nairobi, Lagos, Ahmedabad and Basra.
The dead were mainly from one of Nairobi's notorious trouble spots, the sprawling Kibera slum.
On December 6th, the ruling party invited 1, 500 businessmen to lunch at a Nairobi hotel.
Will Nairobi then compete with other emerging tech hubs such as Bangalore and Tel Aviv?
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Yet, Nairobi is not the only location in Kenya experiencing great growth in luxury real estate.
The following day I departed Nairobi bound for the Indian Ocean coast, riding the slow, winding train to Mombasa.
"I'm disgusted, " said Warothe Kiru, a blogger who lives in the capital of Nairobi.
He had dreams of being cheered as he entered the National Stadium in Nairobi.
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"Kenya can be defined by the compassion of its people, " said Bob Collymore, CEO of Nairobi-based Safaricom.
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