Uncomfortable alliance of villagers and corpses as part of families live on cemetery land

Karuku cemetery village in Mbeere South sub-county where landless families have lived among the graves since 1985 when they were evicted from Makutano Junction market [Joseph Muchiri| Standard]

For 30 years, some 75 landless families in Mbeere South Sub-county, Meru County, have uncomfortably lived among the dead, sharing all their intimate moments with beings long transcended into another world.

Driven there by desperation, the families that have called Karuku Cemetery home now reveal their harrowing tales of life next to the dead.