 The Kibera slums, an area 5 kilometers southwest of City Centre Nairobi, is the most populated informal settlement in East Africa, housing more than one quarter of Nairobi’s population.The name ‘Kibera’ is a Nubian word for ‘forest.’ The original settlers were Sudanese soldiers who settled there after fighting for the British in World War I.

Kibera is roughly 2 kilometers squared with an estimated population of 1 million people.There are no residential buildings over a single storey.