Nairobi When I was last in Kibera, I was able to convince myself that perhaps there were 300,000 people living here rather than the reported 1,000,000. Touching the elephant from a different direction, I have become more convinced that it is probably as large as advertised. There are different “villages” in Kibera: maybe 8, maybe …
Category: International
Public Land Landords
Nairobi Mark Splain is an organizing manager in the SEIU health care division, but he can join me in counting almost 40 years of seniority in the all phases of the work from labor to community and back and forth again. He has joined me in Nairobi (using a week of his vacation!) so that …
Dharavi
Nairobi I opened my current issue of National Geographic on the plane between Detroit and Amsterdam. The cover was about Jamestown, which didn’t hold much interest for me frankly, but what a surprise to find a feature about the giant Dharavi slum in Mumbai, which we had recently visited and discussed. The piece by Mark …