Makadara is a residential neighbourhood in the city of
Nairobi
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Makadara is located approximately southeast of Nairobi's central business district. It is straddled by Jogoo Road to the north. It borders other neighbourhoods such as
Buruburu
Buruburu is a housing estate within Nairobi City County in Kenya. Buruburu is a vast development inhabited by lower middle-class people. The estate was designed in 1974 and comprises six phases, with the fifth completed in the mid-1980s. The estat ...
, Bahati and Industrial Area; it contains Hamza and Maringo.
Overview
Makadara is generally a
high-density housing
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and
low-income
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bungalows
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. Residents of Makadara struggle with limited or poor infrastructure, with unpaved roads, insufficient water or lack of thereof.
Makadara Constituency and Makadara Sub-county both borrow their names from the estate. Both are electoral and administrative divisions of Nairobi.