Homelessness and (un)affordable housing in Nairobi
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.
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.
We can only end hunger when people have control over what they eat and how that food is produced.
As the South African ruling class wages a protracted war against the poor and working class, it grows comfortable with the idea that people have more or less accepted the status quo.
Colonial land grievances and the politics of redistribution in contemporary Kenya.
Unsustainable palm oil industry practices—the result of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) across Africa's tropical belt—have resulted in a number of social and environmental concerns.
Patricia De Lille, one of South Africa's most popular post-apartheid politicians, claims she tried to redress spatial apartheid in Cape Town, but the legacy of her seven year run as mayor is one of violent forced removals and a refusal to upgrade informal settlements.
The centrality of land in the new economic and social spaces and relations produced by conflict and displacement.
The author wrote a column about racial and class inequalities in the city where he lived. The usual backlash by those in power followed.
Ethiopia forcibly relocates rural populations, often at gunpoint and never with any consultation, so the land can become "more productive."
The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGkJsR7-HY] The Guardian’s John Vidal reports from Ethiopia’s remote Gambella region where in the last 10
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?