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Nairobi residents are unhappy with Senator Mike Sonko after he took a pothole fixing machine to Runda, near his home, and not Kibera.
Kibera's urban poor classes, many of them unemployed and economically marginalized, suffering from the greatest incidences of HIV and AIDS, identify more with each others' struggles and share a ...
A common perception has it that beside every affluent hood is a slum. A companion; looking, lurking, feeding it and from it. Karen has the famous Kibera and beside Runda is the less known Mji wa ...
“Vote for Kibera,” winner of the audience prize at the Ji.hlava Docu Film Festival, is the result of two years of working outside the box.
For residents of the Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera, the early Christmas ballet show celebrates community resilience and creativity.
Kenyan fashionista and photographer Stephen Okoth has made it his mission to stand out in Kibera, a large slum area in the capital, Nairobi.
It had been a couple weeks since we heard from Ken Okoth, friend of the BPP who grew up in the Kibera shantytown of Nairobi, Kenya. It's nice when he checks in, but given how things have turned ...
In the sprawling Nairobi slum of Kibera, Renice Owino, a young computer programmer, is passing on her knowledge to disadvantaged students. Owino is the founder and driving force behind the “Code ...
Anne Wairimu stands guard over the small portion of land at the famous Toy market in Kenya's Kibera slum, where her second-hand clothes stall once stood. As the wind blows the ashes of what was once a ...
Defiance under fire in Kibera By Josphat Makori BBC News, Kibera slum, Nairobi People walk through the charred remains of a market in Nairobi's Kibera slum Enlarge Image ...
The Makina clinic in the Kibera slum has treated more than 200 casualities since the civil strife began immediately after the announcement of the election result in favour of President Kibaki.
For residents of the Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera, the early Christmas ballet show celebrates community resilience and creativity. With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet ...