Gentrification: Coming to your neighbourhood

You’ve probably heard the word before and you will be hearing it a lot, now that Nairobi is full and developers are eying every little available space. There are plenty of neighbourhoods around the bustling Nairobi City Centre that came up in the 1960s and 1970s, but many of the homes in these estates are dilapidated and run down.

If the gentry (the wealthy) make good their plans of acquiring and developing under-utilised land, Nairobi will inadvertently be a hotspot for gentrification, especially in the Eastlands.