Nairobi On my last day of this Nairobi trip I was honored to be the guest of a fascinating organization that I have written about before over the years, COPA-K — Community Organizing Practitioners Association of Kenya. This is that rarity in the world — a professional association of organizers. There are about 80 members. They …
Category: International
In the Settlements
Nairobi There are hardly better days that I have had as an organizer than the ones I have spent looking at the “turf” in a new city to decide, as best one can with four decades of experience, where we should start organizing new chapters. In the past I had fallen in love with the potential …
Violence or Peace in Nairobi Slums
February 11, 2009 Nairboi In every conversation I have in Nairobi I ask the question forefront on many minds — has the national power sharing in government worked and is there now peace in the communities or could tribal antagonisms that killed more than 1000 in post-election violence little over a year ago recur. These are …