
Surviving Nairobi As An African Immigrant
I slide and lean back on the leather seat watching my feet soak in a pedicure massager. It is a few minutes past 2 p.m. My eyes pace around the room on the fourth floor of a building on Nairobi’s Moi Avenue.

I slide and lean back on the leather seat watching my feet soak in a pedicure massager. It is a few minutes past 2 p.m. My eyes pace around the room on the fourth floor of a building on Nairobi’s Moi Avenue.

The apartment block on State House Road in Milimani doesn’t just appear. It unfolds, slowly, revealing the prototypical colonial architecture;

If I told you the lady stepping out of the Audi Q7 dressed in a floral sheer kimono and burnt orange palazzo pants is a survivor of FGM, you most probably won’t believe me.

The courtroom was empty. Gleaming wood-panelled walls, a black leather seat on the bench and a door leading to the

I have never been claustrophobic. But in the swell of humans and their earthly chattels on this morning bus, I

“I know how to get cheap alcohol in Qatar,” Brian, my Uber driver said in response to my sympathies for

The short life of Samantha Pendo became a metaphor of Kenya’s 2017 electoral violence.

In one of his most categorical commitments since coming to power, President William Ruto has promised the National Police Service







