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Kenya Slum Upgrading Project in Kibera

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

Featuring Kibera residents Godwin Oyindo, 24, Hilda Olali, 49, and Justus Ongera, 24.

Tagged with: gentrification, housing project, KENSUP, kenya, Kibera, nairobi, Project, settlement, Slum Upgrading, Soweto East, UN Habitat
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Creating a Slum Within a Slum

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

NAIROBI, Jul 22 2014 (IPS) – At the eastern edge of Nairobi’s Kibera slum, children gather with large yellow jerry cans to collect water dripping out of an exposed pipe. The high-rise grey and beige Soweto East settlement towers above…

Kenya: A Case of Media Mentorship in Africa’s Largest Slum

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Adam Bemma — 1 Comment

“The mentoring culture needs to come back to our newsrooms,” said Ernest Sungura, executive director at Tanzania Media Fund, while addressing journalists at the World Press Freedom Day Conference in Arusha May 3. The theme of this year’s Arusha conference…