Tag: Nairobi

Free Download Dr Mario Schmidt, "Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of being a Man in an African City "
English | ISBN: 184701352X | 2024 | 184 pages | EPUB | 12 MB

Free Download Derese G. Kassa, "Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City"
English | ISBN: 1498570992 | 2018 | 102 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Kenya has been the third major outlet through which hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and South Sudan flee from political persecution and for better livelihoods. This book is a commentary of Nairobi as an urban refugee space. It provides an in-depth ethnographic account and analysis of state-refugee relations in Nairobi focusing mainly on the lived experience of Ethiopian refugees. In addition, the author employs Henry Lefebvre’s work on "right to the city" to explore and qualify whether the literature in urban citizenship can speak to the Kenyan experience. This book is a timely and remarkable addition into the cannon of scholarship in comparative urban studies, African studies, and refugee studies.

Free Download Kenda Mutongi, "Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi"
English | 2017 | pages: 361 | ISBN: 022647139X, 022613086X | PDF | 5,1 mb
Drive the streets of Nairobi, and you are sure to see many matatus-colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or extravagantly colored, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present.