Nairobi–Mombasa Expressway Nairobi–Mombasa Expressway The Nairobi–Mombasa Expressway, also known as the Mombasa–Nairobi Expressway or the Nairobi–Mombasa Highway, is a proposed four-lane toll highway in Kenya. The highway will link Nairobi, the capital and largest city of Kenya to Mombasa, the largest seaport of the country. The new highway is expected to cut travel times between the two cities from the current 6 to 10 hours to approximately four hours. The road starts at the Namanga interchange along the Nairobi–Mombasa Road, in the city of Nairobi. It continues in a general southeasterly direction, through seven Kenya Counties to end in the city of
Mombasa c. 1300. The Mandhry Mosque, built in 1570, has a minaret that contains a regionally specific ogee arch. This demonstrates that Swahili architecture was an indigenous African product and disproves assertions that non-African Muslims brought stone architecture to the Swahili Coast. During the pre-modern period, Mombasa was an important centre for the trade in spices, gold, and ivory. Its trade links reached as far as the Indian subcontinent and modern-day China and oral historians today can still recall this period of local history. History shows that there were trade links between Mombasa and Cholas of South India. Throughout the early