With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums, spreading Christmas spirit. Hundreds of ...

Kennedy Odede knows what poverty is. He grew up in Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It's a place ...

More than 7,000 miles from the lavish fanfare of New York City’s Fifth Avenue, Kibera’s bustling streets tell a divergent story of fashion ingenuity. Throughout the Nairobi area settlement, bold ...

Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya — In Kibera, Africa’s biggest slum, you can scratch out a living by preaching, begging, frying dough, burning charcoal, selling pirated DVDs or making illicit moonshine.

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of ...

KIBERA, Kenya — Nearly 10 months after a grandmother in England became the first person in the world to get vaccinated against Covid-19 outside of a clinical trial, we were finally able to start ...

Through Kibera Stories, Brian Otieno looks beyond the stark realities that have defined his hometown’s visual narrative to photograph innovative fashion, art and everyday life. Photographs by Brian ...

Pamela Owino, 54, who cares for children using her own resources. The children are mostly dumped by their parents or are orphans from diverse backgrounds. [Photo: Gardy Chacha, Standard] To get to ...

One of Samuel’s tour guides points down the track toward Mombasa. During the height of Kenya’s July-August tourist season, tens of thousands of travelers from around the world come here for wildlife ...

For residents of the Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera, the early Christmas ballet show celebrates community resilience and creativity. With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers ...