Nairobi – Part 3 -Kibera Free Party

2010.06.30

Some of the members of Ukoo Flani @St Georges church,Kibera

Within a few days of arriving in Nairobi I found myself at a most unusual concert,organised by the Goethe Institut Nairobi, being paid to take pictures.

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Nairobi – Part 2 – Kibera Kids

2010.06.22

Kibera is the largest and probably most famous slum in Africa.
Over a million people living mostly on less than $1 U.S. a day.
During my Kenya trip I spent a lot of time there, partly for work and partly to hang out with some friends I’d made.
One of the things that stuck me about the place was how happy the children seemed, despite their circumstances.

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Nairobi – Part 1 – Some of them are drinking wine

2010.06.17

“Lavosti and Oren, Impromtu jam, Nairobi April 2010″

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Lamu – Part 2 – ‘Telephone Graveyard, Magic Obama and The Meat Market’

2010.06.14

For part 2 of the Lamu posts, first a little history and some dry facts:-

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Lamu – Part 1 – Ass !

2010.06.07

Lamu Town, Kenya’s oldest living town, a UNESCO world heritage site and, for me at least, a crazy 14 hour matatu ride from Nairobi.

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Update: Uchujin Main Site

2010.06.03

(completely unrelated picture-But , really, THAT is what you call a beard!)

Things have been a bit slow here on the blog for the past week or so as I’ve had my head deep in CSS and HTML updating the main Uchujin site.
There are still quite a few Kenya pictures to come though and they will be appearing over the next week or two, so stay tuned.
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