Mathare’s Tina Turner
A young girl growing up in a slum is breaking down stereotypes and reaching for the stars
Tag Archive for ‘Slums’
The Mathare Picture Archive
This collection of family albums is proof of continuity in a century-old 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 