Nairobi: Perhaps the biggest surprise to me was the pervasive ubiquity of NGO’s – non-governmental organizations – in Nairobi. I had read that 90% of the Kenyan developmental funds come from the “donor community,” but until visiting the city and seeing all of the NGO’s headquartered here for all of Eastern Africa and beyond, I had …
Month: October 2004
The Certified Organizers of Kenya
Nairobi: Kibura is a huge slum. The degree that a slum can be said to have “boosters,” Kibura had them. This was reputedly the worst of the worst and as I was told frequently with more than a million residents, this was “the largest slum in sub-Saharan” Africa. Low-slung with no dependable access to clean water …
Kenyan Walmart Textile Workers
Nairobi: This is a huge city yet it seems small in its own way because there is a feeling of the countryside that seems to prevail everywhere in the red dirt paths and constant movement of people along Ngong Road and the busiest streets and the jumble of Uhuru Park next to the dense but understated …