A Love Letter to Nairobi
For my first editorial at UP Magazine, I decided to make a declaration of love to a city that has captured my heart.
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The Love Issue Photoshoot
For my first Issue at UP Magazine I enlisted the help of a talented photographer (amongst other things) called Liz Maelane and one balmy Saturday afternoon we pulled-off this great photoshoot.
The Wanuri Life
I sit down with one of Kenya’s top directors, Wanuri Kahiu, to discuss filmmaking, babies and that TV show that has everyone talking
Inside Blue House Mathare
Doctors Without Borders face an uphill struggle combatting the spread of Tuberculosis in Nairobi’s Mathare slum
Nairobi Pre-Election Street Art
Nairobi street artists making a bang in the run up to the presidential election
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.
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