Posted by Serxhio Tomori, Anthony Yator, Isaac Jenkins, Mercy Chemutai, and Erick Okoyo Otieno
The Nyalenda Estate [or neighborhood], one of several informal settlements that ring Kisumu, is located approximately two kilometers to the south and southeast of the Kisumu city center. This estate was established and administered by the British during the construction of the Kenya-Uganda Railway. After Kenya’s independence, the administration of Nyalenda was passed on to... Read more »
Posted by Eric Michel, Leotine Achieng Otieno, Meshack Onyoni Mauti, Aurelia Imbuhira, & Ronald Petrie
Manyatta is a peri-urban estate [neighborhood] on the eastern outskirts of Kisumu, Kenya’s third-largest city. It is located in what might be called colloquially as the Kisumu’s “slum belt,” a group of informal settlements [hereinafter called slums] that have grown for decades skirting around the center and suburbs of Kisumu since Kenya achieved Independence. The... Read more »
