Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

Details have emerged how Kirinyaga University student Billionaire Evance Akoko popularly known as “Sirikal” died in Nairobi’s ...

Summary: Lilian Kerubo Onsate, a 25-year-old disability advocate from Kibera’s Lindi area, won an ODM grassroots election for ...

This is the pulse of Kibera, one of Africa’s largest slums that never goes to sleep. Life here has changed little since Munjogu, a father of four, came here in 1980 from his ancestral home in ...

my mother and my sister," a 14-year-old girl anonymously wrote in a note she put in what is called a "talking box" at her school in Nairobi's Kibera slum. "For a long time I had no-one to talk to ...

The 17-year-old from Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital, received a scholarship last year to study at the National Ballet School in London. "Being from Kibera, I couldn't imagine one ...

The residents, living in part of the city's largest slum, Kibera, were given just two weeks notice to leave. Bulldozers moved in at dawn as people watched helplessly from the sidelines.

Strewn across public lands, railway tracks and water streams, Kibera, the world’s third largest slum, is an imposing sight. Located just three miles from the vibrant, cosmopolitan charms of Nairobi, ...