ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a historical analysis of Kenya's colonial past and consequent urban development trajectory to highlight the interaction between micro land grabbing practices and the disappearance of sporting grounds as a new form of environmental justice. While Kenya aims to secure its legacy as a sporting nation by embarking on an ambitious plan to construct 11 national sports stadiums across the country, inter-regional sporting grounds are under threat. This chapter examines Nairobi's complicated colonial history and how long-standing land conflicts have influenced the city's urban development. By way of unregulated growth and poor land management, Nairobi's inter-regional sporting grounds are increasingly disappearing, illustrating a clear disconnect between realizing Kenya's stadium legacy project at a national level and limited protection of local sporting grounds.
