On April 12, 1971, at the Nairobi Hospital, Karl Fritz Paul Zimmerman finally succumbed to diabetes. Apart from a small advert in a Kenyan newspaper, few people took notice.
Today, fifty years later, Zimmerman has all but been forgotten. But his name is still imprinted in a Nairobi suburb - Zimmerman Estate.
Many Kenyans have always wondered how this estate acquired a German name.
Here is the story. The land on which Zimmerman Estate stands was owned by this German settler who had built here the second largest taxidermy factory in the world. Taxidermy is the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
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