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Kenyan rapper Octopizzo grew up in the Kibera slum and still has a house there. He has been speaking out against police violence he witnessed against protestors who congregated in the slum the day after the results of Kenya's election were announced.

After witnessing police shoot protesters, Kenyan rapper Octopizzo says ‘who will speak out if I don’t?’

Conflict

Kenyan hip-hop artist Octopizzo says he witnessed police officers firing live bullets on protesters and bystanders in Kibera. Kenyan authorities deny that police used disproportionate force, but Octopizzo says he saw it for himself.

Ben and Salma are Kenyan students studying journalism at the Nairobi community news hub, Habari Kibra. They are looking out over their home town, Kibera, one of the largest slums in the world.

Student journalists in Kenya’s largest slum have their own stories about the country’s elections

Global Politics
"Out the Box," done for Red Bull's One Upon A Town project, Kachelhoffer, Western Cape, South Africa 2015.

Here are three African street artists you should know

Arts
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (L) looks on as U.S. President Barack Obama signs a guest book as he arrives aboard Air Force One at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi July 24, 2015.

President Obama talks gay rights ahead of Kenya visit

Global Politics
Corporal Patricia Mututu (left), a 30-year Kenya Wildlife Service veteran, and Ranger Mildred Oduor on patrol in Nairobi National Park. Hundreds of Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have been shot by poachers in the last three years; 13 have been killed.

Rangers in Kenya are outgunned in the new poaching arms race

Environment
A Kenyan police officer tries to secure an area inside the Westgate Shopping Centre after a militant siege.

The urban guerrilla comes of age

Conflict & Justice

Cities are centers of culture, but they’re also increasingly home turf for militant warfare. That’s what counter-insurgency guru David Kilcullen argues in his new book Out of the Mountains: The Coming of Age of the Urban Guerrilla.

Nairobi's Kibera Slum

What People in Nairobi’s Kibera Slum Make of the Westgate Mall Attack

Arts, Culture & Media

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Kamadi Amata, a Deejay at a community radio station in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, about reaction there to the terrorist attack on the city’s upscale Westgate shopping mall.

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