Syokimau is a residential area in the west of

Machakos County Machakos County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya, which came into being because of the devolved system of governance occasioned by the 2010 constitution of Kenya. The country's first administrative headquarters are in Machakos Town, which is ...

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, just south of

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and

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. The place is named after the legendary

Akamba The Kamba or Akamba (sometimes called Wakamba) people are a Bantu ethnic group who predominantly live in the area of Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo and north to Embu, in the southern part of the former Eastern Province. This land is ...

medicine woman

Prophetess Syokimau Syokimau was a Kamba medicine woman and prophetess who lived in the 1800s long before Kenya became a colony. She was born and lived in Iveti Hills near the today's Machakos town. It is claimed that Syokimau could predict impeding attacks from othe ...

. Syokimau Prophesied the coming of the white people to Kenya and also prophesied the construction of the Mombasa to Kisumu railway line. In her prophecy she said she could see people of a different colour emanating from kisuani, the modern day port of Mombasa and carrying fire in their pockets which was later to be understood as white people in vessels carrying matchboxes and guns. She prophesied seeing a long snake, whose head was in the Indian Ocean and the tail was in Lake Victoria. Administratively, most of Syokimau falls within Syokimau/Mlolongo ward in

Mavoko Constituency Mavoko Constituency is a constituency in Kenya. It is one of eight constituencies in Machakos County Machakos County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya, which came into being because of the devolved system of governance occasioned by the 201 ...

Transport

In November 2012, the Kenyan government officially opened a new metro rail service station in Syokimau, with a service leading to the

Nairobi railway station Nairobi railway station is a railway station located in Nairobi, Kenya. The station is on the metre gauge Uganda Railway, and previously provided services to Mombasa three times per week. However, in 2017, the new Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge ...

and the Central Business District. Syokimau is served by two trains to Nairobi town in the morning, with two trains back in the evening every weekday. Syokimau is also the location of the

Nairobi Terminus Nairobi Terminus is a railway station on the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) located in Syokimau, just south of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Two passenger trains leave the station everyday, an inter-county train that stops at all ...

railway station, the main station for Nairobi on the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. The new station is being built next to the existing Syokimau station, which allows passengers to transfer from standard gauge trains to metre gauge trains to reach the Nairobi city centre.

Air pollution

Syokimau has suffered significant

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from industrial activity. , a concerted campaign to demand clean air has resulted in a reduction in air pollution.

References

Machakos County Populated places in Eastern Province (Kenya) Suburbs of Nairobi {{Kenya-geo-stub

Transport

Air pollution

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