Kibera, Nairobi’s notorious urban informal settlement, is home to 250,000 people across about only a square mile. In modest dwellings made from mud and corrugated iron or in solid but basic colonial-era homes, Kibera’s inhabitants are plagued by intermittent electricity and struggle to gain access to running water.For Big Yasa, a musician on the rise, Kibera is home. As he walks through Makina, the Nubian Muslim-majority neighbourhood he grew up in, the 19-year-old has the force-field aura of a star in the hood.
Inside Kibera’s Thriving Food Scene with Big Yasa
