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3 unusual facts about Kibera


Ferdinand Waititu

Ferdinard Waititu (born January 1, 1962 in Kibera, Nairobi) is the immediate former Member of Parliament for Embakasi Constituency and assistant minister for Water Services and Irrigation in the government of Kenya.

Mary Beth Fielder

The workshops took place in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa where she taught scriptwriting to fifty youths from the slums with Hot Sun Foundation.

Rich, Famous and in the Slums

Four famous personalities, Lenny Henry, Reggie Yates, Samantha Womack and Angela Rippon, were sent by the BBC to live for several weeks in the slums of Kibera.


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Community Cooker Foundation

Community Cooker Foundation is an initiative by Planning Systems Services Ltd. in Nairobi, Kenya, established in 2010, with the goal of using the Community Cooker, a simple stove designed to turn rubbish into safe, clean and cheap energy, to transform Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera.

Eighth World

The album reflects a more up close and personal theme, with lyrics about relationships and the many sceneries Misia encountered in her homeland as well as in Kenya, where she visited the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

John Guidetti

Guidetti credits playing football with older children from the poorer slum areas of Kibera and Mathare Nairobi as an important step in his development on and off the field.

Renee Botta

The problem has increased to the point where one in every five children die before the age of five in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi.

Soul Boy

It developed under the mentorship of German director and producer Tom Tykwer in Kibera, one of the largest slums in the African continent, in the middle of Nairobi, Kenya.

Steve Bloom

Bloom's second book on Africa, Trading Places - The Merchants of Nairobi, features subsistence shopkeepers in the suburbs of Nairobi, including Kibera.


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