Syokimau

Syokimau
Syokimau
Location in Kenya
Coordinates: 1°21′36″S 36°56′17″E / 1.360°S 36.938°E / -1.360; 36.938Coordinates: 1°21′36″S 36°56′17″E / 1.360°S 36.938°E / -1.360; 36.938
Country  Kenya
County Machakos County
Time zone UTC+3 (EAT)

Syokimau is a residential area in the west of Machakos County, Kenya, just south of Nairobi and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

The place is named after the legendary Akamba medicine woman Prophetess Syokimau. 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 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 that whose head was in the Indian Ocean and the tail was in Lake Victoria.

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 and the Central Business District. Syokimau is serviced by 2 trains to Nairobi town in the morning, with 2 trains back in the evening every weekday.[1]

Syokimau is the location of the Mombasa South railway station, the main stop 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.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Traffic-clogged Nairobi opens commuter rail route, 16 November 2012, CapitalFM, Retrieved 29 October 2015
  2. ↑ Chao-Blasto, Sandra; Njoroge, Kiarie (January 13, 2016). "Mombasa SGR passengers to change trains at Syokimau".


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