<\/a>In this photo taken Jan. 1, 1981 security personnel and officials assess the damage after a bomb attack in which 20 died at the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. AP<\/p><\/div>\n
Like Westgate, the Norfolk’s clients were mostly people of means, some of fame. Guests included Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt; in 1979, Jerry Brown, California’s governor then and now, stayed there with singer Linda Ronstadt.<\/p>\n\n
Hilary Ng’weno, publisher of The Weekly Review, a Kenyan journal, wrote at the time of the explosion that it created “uncertainty” between Kenya and foreign visitors and aimed to undermine a political system with a continental reputation for stability.<\/p>\n\n
Ng’weno said: “Ironically, it is the very nature of a free society in Kenya which has made the bombing at the Norfolk possible.”<\/p>\n\n
The hotel, now Saudi-owned, marked its 2004 centenary with a parade of vintage cars and horse-drawn carriages. The theme was the Norfolk’s iconic role in the growth of Kenya’s capital, which is again embarking on a path to recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n
Christopher Torchia is the Associated Press bureau chief for southern Africa, based in Johannesburg.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames and smoke, the whoop of sirens, the flicker of ambulance lights and uniformed men shouting in darkness. These are my childhood memories of the chaotic aftermath of a hotel bombing in Kenya’s capital on New Year’s Eve, 1980. The attack on the Norfolk Hotel, popular among foreign tourists, preceded the Sept. 21 assault on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":899,"featured_media":510719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,34,530,43],"tags":[20139,1040,108943],"byline":[],"source":[206067],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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