Kibera si Nairobi; The road to Migingo...

Kibera or let me call it Kibra is a complex place to live in and even visit. The development industry (read NGOs) had told the whole world that Kibera is home to one million people, 2009 cencus put it at two hundred and fifty thousand. Reports had to be edited and grants revised but the truth was out, Kibera is a special place to the inhabitants and the interested parties.

One reason why I say Kibera is not Nairobi is because there is a new settlement called Migingo in Kibera. New because, there older ones come by the names Katwekera, Lindi, Makina, Mashimoroni, Laini Saba, Olympics, Ayany, Raila, Karanja and Soweto, where I fall but my neighbours will deny that we live in Kibera.

This is Saturday at 7:15 am, Kibera residents are streaming out of the Road to Migingo to go to Nairobi and look for work...

Then this is the road to my neighbourhood at about the same time 7:20 am where we all believe we don't live in Kibera,

we can afford an extra hour of sleep on Saturday because we dont walk to work like our 'hood mates.'

RIARA University tried to come to Kibera but shied off at the entrance...

The Mall; everything under one roof...

Even City Council knows; when you demolish illegal structures -all structures in Kibera are, there are some you dare not touch, but you can get as close as you can..

A street off the road to Migingo-

Maina Kageni and Mwalimu King'ang'i broadcast in Nairobi, in Kibera we dont have Kenya Dairy Association (sic) we buy our milk Live and Direct...

We also sell our water with a swagg..

Track with me, as I take the road to Migingo, to prove to you that Kibera si Nairobi..... Next week, I enter SOWETO......