If you live in posh Lavington and yearn for mahindi ya kusagwa, you have to go to next-door Kawangware slums, the posho mill capital of Nairobi. But you will never catch the well-heeled in their ...
Kawangware announces itself before it explains itself. The road narrows, with the smell of open trenches competing with the calls of hawkers balancing tomatoes, phone chargers and second-hand shoes on ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - It all started with a rumour: the Mungiki, a dreaded Kikuyu tribal militia, had infiltrated Nairobi's Kawangware slum. Within minutes, local men already fired up by Kenya's ...
The Opposition leader who was expected to hold demos in the CBD instead chose to go to Kawangware because of the heavy police presence in the city centre. Last week, their plans to access the CBD were ...
Deadly clashes between police and protesters and fears of further bloodshed led Kenya's election commission to indefinitely postpone voting in some opposition strongholds, citing safety concerns for ...
Traders whose businesses were destroyed during the violence that hit Nairobi's Kawangware in the wake of the repeat presidential election started rebuilding their structures Wednesday. An uneasy calm ...
Thirteen members of Kare4Kenya – a non-profit non-governmental development organisation based in Malta that works to help Kenyan children – will be spending the month of August in Kawangware – a slum ...
Kare4Kenya supports more than 90 boys and girls. Kare4Kenya's mission in Kawangware is "to improve the lives of Kenyan children by providing educational opportunities". Now that another year has ...