A man walks past a video viewing store in Nairobi’s Mathare slums. The roofs of this sprawling slum stretches into the background. Approximately 500,000 people live within Mathare Valley with the 180,000 populating the oldest of the slums that make up Mathare.
The Roofs of Mathare
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Posted on April 12th, 2010
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