Editing Nairobi (section)

===Growth===
In 1921, Nairobi had 24,000 residents, of which 12,000 were native Africans.<ref name="ReferenceA">Garth Andrew Myers, Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa, Syracuse University Press, 2003</ref> The next decade saw growth in native African communities in Nairobi, and they began to constitute a majority for the first time.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> This growth caused planning issues, described by [https://atom.lib.uct.ac.za/index.php/thornton-white-leonard-william Thorntorn White] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022233148/https://atom.lib.uct.ac.za/index.php/thornton-white-leonard-william |date=22 October 2020 }} and his planning team as the "Nairobi Problem".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=A. M. |last2=Bezemer |first2=P. M. |title=The concept and planning of public native housing estates in Nairobi/Kenya, 1918- 1948. |journal=Planning Perspectives |year=2020 |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=609–634 |doi=10.1080/02665433.2019.1602785 |s2cid=150702513 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2020PlPer..35..609M }}</ref> In February 1926, colonial officer Eric Dutton passed through Nairobi on his way to [[Mount Kenya]], and said of the city:
{{Blockquote|Maybe one day Nairobi will be laid out with tarred roads, with avenues of flowering trees, flanked by noble buildings; with open spaces and stately squares; a cathedral worthy of faith and country; museums and of art; theatres and public offices. And it is fair to say that the Government and the Municipality have already bravely tackled the problem and that a town-plan ambitious enough to turn Nairobi into a thing of beauty has been slowly worked out, and much has already been done. But until that plan has borne fruit, Nairobi must remain what she was then, a slatternly creature, unfit to queen it over so lovely a country.<ref name=Dutton>{{cite book |last=Dutton |first=E. A. T. |others=Introduction by Hilaire Belloc |title=Kenya Mountain |orig-year=1929 |edition=1 |year=1929 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |location=London |pages=1–2 |chapter=1 }}</ref>
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After [[World War II]], continuous expansion of the city angered both the indigenous [[Maasai people|Maasai]] and [[Kikuyu people|Kikuyu]].<ref>Elkins,&nbsp;Caroline.&nbsp;Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya.&nbsp;United Kingdom,&nbsp;Pimlico,&nbsp;2005.</ref> This led to the [[Mau Mau Uprising]] in the 1950s, and the [[Lancaster House Conferences (Kenya)|Lancaster House Conferences]], which initiated a transition to Kenyan independence in 1963.

In the spring of 1950, the East African Trades Union Congress (EAUTC) led a [[1950 Nairobi general strike|nine-day general strike]] in the city.<ref name="cotu-kenya">{{cite web|title=History of COTU(K) – Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU-K)|url=https://cotu-kenya.org/history-of-cotuk/|access-date=2021-08-25|website=cotu-kenya.org|archive-date=9 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109203033/https://cotu-kenya.org/history-of-cotuk/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="libcom">{{cite web|title=The Nairobi General Strike, 1950: From Protest to Insurgency|url=https://libcom.org/library/nairobi-general-strike-1950-protest-insurgency|access-date=2021-08-25|website=libcom.org|archive-date=20 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620004614/https://libcom.org/library/nairobi-general-strike-1950-protest-insurgency|url-status=live}}</ref>