Residents' hopes as campaigns begin in Kibra

A man shows a section of Kibra slums in Nairobi on Thursday, September 19, 2019. [David Njaaga,Standard]

It is a hot Thursday afternoon in Nairobi. At Area 42 in Kibra Constituency, Nairobi, people sit conversing outside shopfronts.

Aside from the cacophony of campaign posters – yellow and blue, red, orange – plastered on the walls and electricity posts, it is almost impossible to believe that Kibra is preparing to go to polls on November 7.