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Monday, 6 October 2014

Hope In Kibera (State House In The Slum)



Stomach upset
Flying toilets
Tourism target?!
Slum in sunset
Kibera’s silhouette 
Slum tours! Bullshit
Slum gangs, robbery suspects
Lived by the gun died by the bullet
People surviving on empty pockets
Fully loaded black leather wallets
Just the national ID card and a prospect
A Muzungu’s business card and a few other contacts
Flyers of music concerts and 2012 art contests
He came, saw, took pictures, wept and left
It was total nightmare as he slept
It’s a slum. What did he expect?
Smiles on our faces as though everything was perfect?
The following day he came with some concepts
Kibra Youth and women empowerment projects
Now we reflect and redirect our hopes to a new subject
State house in the Slum, but  first class social status not yet

-Edwin Onyango

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