September 12, 2021 Pasha 124: How Nairobi’s informal settlements got their names Ozayr Patel, The Conversation CC BY-NC-ND14.2 MB (download) The place names of Nairobi’s informal settlements offer a glimpse into the realities of people who live there.
A child walks along a road in Mathare informal settlement. Alissa Everett/Getty Images May 9, 2021 The fascinating history of how residents named their informal settlements in Nairobi Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita, Technical University of Kenya Residents of Nairobi’s informal settlements use names as a way of voicing the issues that they struggle with every day.
About 56% of Kenya’s urban population currently lives in a slum. Shutterstock/John Wollwerth October 21, 2018 Nairobi’s slum residents pay a high price for low quality services Debabrata Talukdar, University at Buffalo The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
About 250,000 people live in Kibera slum in Nairobi. Shutterstock/Authentic travel July 24, 2018 Evictions in Nairobi: why the city has a problem and what can be done to fix it Kefa M. Otiso, Bowling Green State University Kenya needs to complete its national digital land registry to increase transparency and efficiency of the city’s land.