Nairobi Kibera is widely reported to be the largest slum in Africa, but god only knows who keeps such statistics, because it is certainly not the government of Kenya, nor, anyone else that I can tell. The size is unknown when one strips all of the stories away. Many said 1 million of Nairobi’s 6 …
Category: International
Settlements of Nairobi
Nairobi I went with six other members of Habitat International–Coalition to see three settlements in Nairobi in the late afternoon of the 3rd day of the World Social Forum. What we saw was disturbing to many of our delegation, yet we were witnessing what were obviously squatting success stories. The first area was on a hillside. The …
Flavor of the Forum
Nairobi The daily publication of the WSF said they had 50,000 registrations, but who knows where they were. Virtually no one walking and talking around the event thought there was half of that and many feared that 10,000 might be the best that were showing at any one time. Money was the issue here, and …