United Kenya Club
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 Entrance to the United Kenya Club, 2019 | |
| Formation | 1946 |
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| Website | unitedkenyaclub |
The United Kenya Club is a social and residential club in central Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in 1946, the club was intended as a center for intellectual discussion among Kenyans supporting a nonracial Kenyan society and future. The club provides accommodations, food, and maintains a continued intellectual and political role in Kenya.
The United Kenya Club was formed in 1946, intended as a center of mixed-race social gatherings in Nairobi, and an institution where African visitors to the city could find accommodation.[1][2] In his memoir, Kenyan industrialist Madatally Manji wrote that the club was founded by twelve members with diverse racial backgrounds, and that the club's first president was the liberal governor of Kenya, sir Philip Euen Mitchell.[2] The club was founded with the intention of including support for socialization and accommodation in reciprocity with other, similar clubs in east Africa.[1] Initially founded at the site of a small structure on Whitehouse Road (now Haile Selassi Avenue) in Nairobi, the club later acquired a permanent structure on State House Road next to the University of Nairobi, where it remains.[2]