This guest post is by journalist Abby Higgins, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It’s the fourth in a five-part series which reveals the economically complex and culturally rich life of urban ...

10,000 new residents arrive in Kibera every year. At such a dizzying rate, it is no wonder that the slum, in southern Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest in Africa. The community was first settled when the ...

One of Samuel’s tour guides points down the track toward Mombasa. During the height of Kenya’s July-August tourist season, tens of thousands of travelers from around the world come here for wildlife ...

KIBERA, Kenya (Reuters) - Crispian Amolo has no electricity or running water and shares a hole-in-the-ground toilet with about 90 people but at least he does not have to scramble for 1,000 Kenyan ...

Summer for a college student can mean any number of things: rest and relaxation, family time or perhaps a busy work schedule. But for me, this summer meant a journey halfway around the world to ...

“Vote for Kibera,” winner of the audience prize at the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival, is the result of two years of working outside the box, says director Martin Pav. When Czech non-profit worker ...

Kennedy Odede’s life prospects were bleak. He was homeless and hungry. At the age of 10, he survived a near-death beating for stealing a mango. He had gone for three days without food - something the ...

On Wednesday afternoons, after the final bell of the day, a cement-walled classroom in the impoverished Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera is transformed into a ballet studio. The room is cleared of its ...

“I have never met my father. And don’t know how it feels to have one,” said the Kibera-raised Mammito. Popular Kenyan comedian Mammito Eunice is undoubtedly one of the best in the African comedy scene ...