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 ...

As I continued exploring the city of Nairobi, Kenya, my guides took me to one of the city’s poorest areas, Kibera—the largest urban slum in Africa. In this video, we’re going to explore this ...

The Kibera slum upgrade, as Prime Minister Raila Odinga said when he presided over the relocation, is a pilot one and the programme will be rolled out in other slums in Nairobi and other towns ...

He started photography three years ago in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, after finishing his studies in cinematography. At the time, he did not have much going on and so he started taking photos of his ...

It is has been three months since the Kibera slum upgrade project, which is being undertaken by the National Youth Services (NYS), was launched. And according to Lydia Mathia, the advisor on youth ...

Resistance to a government scheme to upgrade housing in Nairobi’s Kibera slum is enmeshed in economics, history and identity. Apart from the fact that he has a university education, a rarity ...

At the pace KENSUP is going, it’s hard to believe that the planned upgrade of the entire slum will ever be complete. But it’s harder still to imagine that Kibera residents like Mildred will ever feel ...

Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya — In Kibera ... images. But Muyundo, who started his professional life painting shop exteriors, says that though shopkeepers might be the biggest art clients in the ...

Young dancers perform, during a Christmas ballet event in Kibera slum, one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga) ...

Aroni’s ruling arose out of an application by 84 people living in Kibera. They say if the Government has to upgrade the houses as it has proclaimed under the Slum Upgrading Programme ...