• Adam Yawe

In Nairobi, skateboarding provides an alternative space where consumption is not a prerequisite for entry.

• Adrian Wilson
• Faith Kasina
• Irene Nduta
• Jethron Ayumbah Akallah

Access to water in Nairobi is horribly unequal. The World Bank, Nairobi Water Company, and development economists exploited this unjust context to treat poor Kenyans like guinea pigs.

• Wangui Kimari
• Constant Cap

Urban displacements greatly diminish the living conditions of already desperate populations living on the brink of poverty in Kenya's capital.

• Naipanoi Lepapa

On the back of a failed COP26 climate conference: how e-waste dumping by European countries in Africa contribute significantly to climate change.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Nairobi with Kenyan journalist and radio programmer Bill Odidi. Listen on Worldwide FM.

• Smith Ouma

Nairobi is already witnessing the sidelining of democratic institutions. Now a new city management agency is further excluding the public.

• Rasna Warah

Cities will continue to exist and grow despite the coronavirus crisis because of the distinctly human need for social interaction, physical contact, and collaboration.

• Lucy Wambui

Drug use among young people in Nairobi's slums is on the rise. Youth also face arbitrary arrests by the police, resulting in jail time which turns them into hardcore criminals in a vicious cycle.

• Samuel Gathanga

I’ve lived a good part of my life in Mathare 4A, part of the larger Mathare slum in Nairobi. Decent housing remains a pipe dream for the majority of the city's residents.

• Olugbenga Adelekan

Is diasporan a word? It is now. You cannot understand what it is to be Nigerian, or Kenyan or South African now, without factoring in the diaspora.

• Liz Timbs

• Dan Moshenberg

In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr'e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.

• Abdi Latif Ega

Kenyans employ all kinds of crude and unconscionable fascist statements towards anything Somali.

• Karen Obling

After years in South Africa, Ng'ok's work now explores her own relation to places, people and spaces of her native Nairobi.

• Africa Is a Country

• Nii Ayikwei Parkes

A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.

• Ato Quayson

The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.

• Basia Cummings

Julie Mehretu's canvases depict a public zone dichotomous to that of their own surrounding, brimming with a sense of the life of a city which we can never really know or measure, whose politics is alive but oddly incubated.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Dan Moshenberg