Boyhood Dreams

A boy relaxes on a rock at a construction site in Njoro near Nakuru.

Jostling For Position

Matatus try and overtake each other in a bid to get to Nairobi faster along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway in the outskirts of Naivasha. Public Service Vehicles are the leading cause of road accidents in Kenya.

Pimping Wheelbarrows

A laborer at Nairobi’s industrial area paints wheelbarrows under what is knows at the “Jua Kali” industry. Jua Kali, literally “hot sun” in Swahili, is the name for micro enterprises, roadside industry in Kenya.

From Africa Unchained

The Western concept of industrialisation has met with little success in most African countries. The poor performance of industries has [...]

The Weary Road

A worn out stretch of the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway between Timboroa and Burnt Forest.

Waiting in Traffic

Traffic Costs Nairobi $746,000 Per Day

The Kenyan capital of Nairobi is struggling with crippling car congestion — a problems some say is so bad the country should consider transferring its capital to another city.

“Once known as East Africa’s green “City in the Sun”, Nairobi is so choked with traffic that Kenya’s architects suggest moving to [...]

Cane for the Factory

Land in northern Ghana to produce ethanol for export to Sweden

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Monday, December 21, 2009

Large tracts of land in the northern part of Ghana will be used to cultivate sugarcane for the production of ethanol for export to Sweden, the GNA has reported the Vice President as saying. The [...]