Tag: Kenya

Nakuru Waters: A New City on the Edge of Kenya’s Great Rift

.Reading time 13 minutes.
Arial view of the Kenya town of Nakuru

Editor’s note: This is the third post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Gitonga Njeru Phillip Kilemia, aged 63, was born and raised in Nakuru. The businessman has seen the city grow to what it has become today. “Faced with myriad challenges, it […]

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Discrimination and Sanitation in a White City: Nairobi during British Colonial Rule

.Reading time 39 minutes.

By Waseem-Ahmed Bin-Kasim Not long after the horrifying murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in May 2020, protesters took to the streets in cities across the United States and the rest of the world demanding justice and a redress of decades of police brutality, systemic racism, and inequality.  In London, Bristol, […]

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