Nairobi Talking to ACORN Kenya organizers and leaders, one thing jumped to the top of the conversation quickly when education was raised, and it was not the poor quality of the books and classrooms this time, it was food, specifically school lunches. Everyone from slumdweller to education expert agrees that a child’s ability to …
Month: December 2018
Community Radio Comes to the Nairobi Slums
Nairobi Visiting Korogocho, where ACORN Kenya has worked for the last more than eight years, we wanted to make sure that we had an opportunity to visit an interesting experiment in community radio, KOCH-FM 99.9. Years ago, I had noticed there might be such a thing when we were visiting our groups, but we had …
Thinking about Block Clubs, R. L. Polk’s City Directories, and the Chicago Police
Nairobi What would you do in a plane for seventeen hours between New Orleans, Washington, Zurich, and finally Nairobi? Try to sleep, surely. I tried that. Watch a movie or two? Ok, but that can be a climb. Read, yes, absolutely. Among other books I read on these flights was one about block clubs in …