By DAUTI KAHURAMore by this AuthorOn Easter Monday I was in Huruma, the sprawling ghetto that neighbours Ngei, Kia Maiko and Mathare slums. Life in the ghetto, any ghetto, anywhere, can never be boring. “You know Huruma is next to Kia Maiko and in Kia Maiko, there are many foreigners – how would you tell a Kenyan from a Nigerian or Congolese, or even an Ethiopian? “Young Huruma boys hardly out of their mother’s cosset are being recruited into hardcore criminal gangs, faster that they are finishing Class Eight” said a Huruma social activist. In Huruma, as indeed in all the other city slums, life, especially for the young man, is short, nasty and brutish.

Source: Daily Nation April 26, 2019 13:07 UTC