Changing face of Kisumu city as posh villas dot lake shores, hills

An aerial view of Kisumu city. [File, Standard]

Kisumu suffers amid plenty and availability. This has been the cry of locals for decades as residents of Kenya's third-largest city rely on what colonialists built for a population of 40,000 people at the beginning of the 19th century.

With the current population of 1.8 million people, residents require modern buildings to accommodate them.