• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the first video from a series for the Capitalism In My City project, Brian Mathenge decodes what everyday capitalism looks like from the margins of Nairobi.

• 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.

• Minoo Kyaa
• Maryanne Kasina

How is it that water flows freely and cheaply in Nairobi's wealthy neighborhoods, but thousands of people in informal settlements are denied access to it?

• Elsa Rousset

The destruction of Tarkwa Bay in Lagos and the battle over what makes a city and who belongs in it.

• Marcel Paret

The politics of local resistance in urban South Africa: Evidence from three informal settlements.

• April Zhu

The periodic evictions of poor families in Nairobi follows in a long tradition in Kenya, dating to colonialism, to keep the city as a space for the elite.

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

Iniciam nosso projecto sobre o capitalismo em Nairobi, perguntando: Será que já não existe um salário decente?

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

Tunaanza uchambuzi wetu kuhusu ubepari jijini Nairobi tukiuliza: Je, kuna kitu kama mshahara mzuri siku hizi?

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

We start our project on capitalism in Nairobi by asking: Is there such a thing as a decent wage anymore?

• Grace Mwaura
• Rhoda Omenya
• Emma Samman

The precariousness of life for women gig workers—in services like cleaning, driving, gardening, beauty supply, and catering—in Kenya.

• Magdalena Chulek

Prevailing thoughts on slums stress their transitory character, but the complexity of everyday life in slums, including how people manage survival, is lost in the way they are understood from the outside.

• Milford Bateman
• Maren Duvendack
• Nicholas Loubere

Mobile-phone-based, person-to-person payment and money transfer systems are innovative—but are they really good for poverty reduction and development?

• Tim Zulauf

A reflection—by one of the group’s artists—on a Swiss-South African art project exploring eviction and extraction.

• Milford Bateman

The microcredit industry is not a driver of development and poverty reduction, but quite the opposite: it is an "anti-developmental" intervention.

• David S. Williams

Following the new UN report on climate change and agricultural land use, David S. Williams highlights the effects climate changes will have on communities in informal urban areas.

• Tula Connell

How women farm workers in North Africa, specifically Morocco, are achieving justice on the job.

• William Shoki

Technological change is not simply a neutral and inevitable process—it is shaped and driven by existing social relations.

• Celia Breuer

The future of Kenya's matatus (commuter buses) and their inherent place in the capital Nairobi's culture and society, is all but absent in the government's neoliberal vision for urban planning.

• Jostein Løhr Hauge
• Vincent Hardy

Labour challenges in Ethiopia's industrialization.