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Nairobi posts
Cameras for Kibera, a non-profit project to help Kenyans
Mar 15th, 2009 at 5:00PM: The Dutch project Cameras for Kibera is aimed towards helping young Kenyans become video journalists in order to help them tell the stories about Africa's largest slum. Kibera, Nairobi is home to possibly as many as 2.5 million people who live in crowded conditions of poor sanitation, poor housing and very little possibilites. For the most part, the plight of the people who live there has been ...
Fancy breakfast with the giraffes?
Dec 26th, 2008 at 2:00PM: When I was 6 years old, I was taken to Longleat National Park in the UK, where our car got attacked by monkeys, chased by lions, and gazed at by giraffes. I recall desperately wanting to pat and feed the giraffes; those tall, magnificent, doe-eyed, beautiful monsters. I also remember feeling like a Lilliputian in front of them, but they are so adorable that their sheer largeness didn't scare me. I ...UN: Urban Growth Set to Explode in Africa
Nov 25th, 2008 at 2:00PM: In 1950, there were only two cities in Africa with more than one million inhabitants. They were both in Egypt (Cairo and Alexandria). In the 2008 version of continent, there are more than 40 urban centers with populations over 1 million. A report by the UN Human Settlements Programme projects that the number of Africans living in cities will double by 2030 to more than 700 million. The image of an ...Tourism in Kenya down 44%
Mar 22nd, 2008 at 3:30PM: Kenya, with its pristine white beaches and game parks teeming with wild animals, has been kind of a ghost town this winter. The post-election violence that killed more than 1,200 people and displaced 250,000 has left a huge dent on the billion-dollar tourist industry there.
Many countries advised their citizens to stay away from Kenya after the riots triggered by the December 27 election. ...
