Conversations with a Chokora
The homeless on Nairobi’s streets are the city’s main recyclers but nobody is reaching out to help them
Archive for April 2013
Mathare’s Tina Turner
A young girl growing up in a slum is breaking down stereotypes and reaching for the stars
Nairobi Pre-Election Street Art
Nairobi street artists making a bang in the run up to the presidential election
The Mathare Picture Archive
This collection of family albums is proof of continuity in a century-old slum
Upendo Hero: No Cape in Sight
Nairobi’s very own Upendo Hero, a champion of love, is fighting for Public Space in the Slums of Nairobi
Ask the Street Walker
What options do young girls growing up in informal settlements have as they knock on the doors of adulthood?
Community Mapping in Nairobi Slums
In Nairobi, like in many other expanding urban centres around the world, residents of informal settlements make up well over half the population of the city. Many of Nairobi’s informal settlements trace their origins back to the pre-independence area, while many more have sprung up in recent years, largely as a result of increase levels of migration from the countryside. What most of these informal settlements have in common is […]
In the Room with Octopizzo
This is a link to an audio interview I conducted over a year ago with Octopizzo, a HipHop artist and entrepreneur who hails from Kibera, Nairobi’s most infamous slum.
Hello World!
Does WordPress no longer start out blogs with that greeting? Have things changed since the last time I blogged? Has it really been that long? Well, whatever it is, I’ve decided to finally start keeping a blog again. Still slightly unclear about the details though. I thought I might post a few of my top articles from URB.im to start with and then continue by make a little chronicle of […]
Katy Fentress 