Gangs of Nairobi
Men living on the edge of the law attempt to find legitimacy working within the confines of their slum
Development
Inside Blue House Mathare
Doctors Without Borders face an uphill struggle combatting the spread of Tuberculosis in Nairobi’s Mathare slum
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 […]
Katy Fentress 