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Kenya’s filthy working-class

Kenya’s next cholera epidemic will not be in the slums but in relatively affluent areas where Kenya’s educated and employed single people live in filth and squalour, writes Sophie Khakasa.

The reality TV show How Clean is Your House? portrays such filth and grime to make one wonder how people survive in such squalour.

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