Kennedy Odede knows what poverty is. He grew up in Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It's a place ...

Defying the sweltering afternoon heat, Jenny Fair and her young peers huddled around a large table, marveling at remotely controlled robots making circular motions. Currently in Grade Seven, the ...

People try to put out a fire in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 17, 2026. A fire broke out here on Saturday, causing dozens of houses burned down. No casualties have been reported yet. (Photo: ...

In Africa's largest slum town, a retired railway worker has turned an abandoned shack into a library for the local children. Every afternoon at four o'clock, Joseph Otieno unlocks a dented metal door ...

Solomon Muyundo, AKA Solo 7 painted peace messages during the 2007/08 post election violence in the slum of Kibera. He p | dHNzX3RUWXlrNGtEamFz ...

House of Friends Art Gallery owner Jamey Ponte (right) and his assistant, Patrick Owino Otieno. They are the faces behind the Nairobi Arts Biennale 2026 at the gallery in Kibera on January 13, 2026.

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had warned that fierce competition over fresh water could replace oil as the world’s ...

NAIROBI: ACCORDING to the Afrobarometer report, based on surveys conducted by experts from the University of Nairobi in Kenya ...

Informality in African cities is not only a symptom of failed governance, but it is also a calculated electoral strategy, ...

Located in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Code with Kids, a community-focused organization dedicated to providing affordable and accessible science, technology, ...

We look like people who could be criminals, with our dreadlocks and black skin, and the fact that we are three, four ...