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
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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.
Katy Fentress 