Money money money money money money money money money. Let no one say it has no place in a love story. It has a particular place. It is something on the right shelf.
This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.
- Daniel Handler. Adverbs
The Divide between Rich & Poor
The divide between rich and poor is undeniably wide, across the world and especially across African cities like Nairobi. In a country where more than 70% of the population live in informal dwellings, where Africa’s largest slums incubate African dreams, nightmares and disaster. This same city also possess es pockets of extreme affluence and beauty.
The natural landscape aside, new Nairobeans, are building a thriving metropolis, where on certain streets, on certain days, in certain lights, you could easily be living in London, New York or Paris.
What are the costs of such disparities in wealth? The social costs in terms of rising crime, ethnic clashes, vagrants are obvious. When there is not enough to go around people will fight over the crumbs.
In affluent neighborhoods, like Hurlingham, the newly affluent, upwardly mobile young couples are cocooned from the daily reality of hustle and strife. But for how many? And for how long?