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A photo of a residential apartment within Nairobi's Pipeline Estate. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]
When John Kagiri moved to his single-room house in Roysambu, Nairobi, it was an upgrade from the hovel in Kangemi's Sodom slum that he previously called home. He had just secured employment as a loader at a nearby supermarket and wanted to reduce the daily commute.
But apart from some aesthetics, the home was no more liveable than his former two-bedroomed wooden house in Kangemi, the room quarters.
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