In the Media

Kibera Stories

• In this sprawling city within a city, fighting coronavirus requires solidarity  with Rachel Jones – National Geographic.
• An Insider’s View of Joy and Beauty in Africa’s Biggest Shantytown by Finbarr O’Reilly – New York Times
• Travel photo of the week: a sharp style and plenty of hope – meet Nairobi’s model citizen – The Guardian
• Kenyan fashionista dares to stand out in Kibera slum – BBC
• Then & Now – Huffpost
• The other side of the world’s biggest slum | Photography | Showcase – TRT WORLD
• Kenya un bidonville sublimé par un photographe – FRANCE24
• Teenage Moms of Kibera – World Press Photo/Witness
• Made In Kibera: This Nairobi-Area Enclave Is Emerging As A Global Center For Fashion – Essence 

• Joy, despair and determination: photographs from Kibera – The Guardian

• Photos: Learning from home in Kibera, during COVID-19 – UNICEF

• Focusing on Kibera’s wins through the lens  – People Daily, Kenya

• Storitellah: Eyes from Inside – CGTN Africa

On Assignment for The New York Times

• Young Somalis Step In Where Government Fails – By Abdi Latif Dahir

• Hunger, Terrorism and the Threat of War: Somalia’s Year of Crises – By Abdi Latif Dahir in Somalia

• Tiny Electric Vehicles Pack a Bigger Climate Punch Than Cars – By Abdi Latif Dahir

• Kenya’s Leader Lifts His Global Profile. At Home, the Public Fumes. – By Abdi Latif Dahir

• ‘We Will Hunt You’: Ugandans Flee Ahead of Harsh Anti-Gay Law – By Abdi Latif Dahir

• Kenya’s Health Workers Walk Off Job After Months Without Pay or Protection – By Abdi Latif Dahir

• How a Kenyan Power Broker Lost His Stronghold, Then the Presidency – By Abdi Latif Dahir

• Covid Surge in Africa Raises Fears of a Calamity Like India’s – With Abdi Latif Dahir

• Mogadishu Bombing Took the Lives of the ‘Best and the Brightest’ – With Abdi Latif Dahir in Somalia

• ‘Jewel in the Crown of Corruption’: The Troubles of Kenya’s China-funded Train – With Abdi Latif Dahir

• The West Doesn’t Want More Migrants. But Rwanda Will Take Them. – With Abdi Latif Dahir in Rwanda

• In Kenya, a Bold Approach to Adornment – By Melanie Abrams

• Kenya’s High Court Delays National Biometric ID Program – By Abdi Latif Dahir and Carlos Mureithi

• Kenya’s New Digital IDs May Exclude Millions of Minorities – With Abdi Latif Dahir

• He Grew Up on a Farm. Now, He Helps Protect Them. – By Norman Mayersohn

• A Writer’s Favorite Spots in Nairobi – By Wadzanai Mhute

On Assignment for Der Spiegel

• Alles ist extrem, nichts ist mehr normal. Es gibt nichts mehr, woran wir uns festhalten können – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Wie Massai in Tansania arabischen Großwildjägern weichen müssen – With Heiner Hoffmann in Tanzania     

• Wie Kenia zum Wunderland für erneuerbare Energien wird – With Heiner Hoffmann    

• Andrew Tates afrikanische Jünger – With Heiner Hoffmann    

• Das sind die Menschen hinter der KI-Revolution – With Heiner Hoffmann    

• Hospitals Experience Fringe Benefits of COVID Pandemic – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Der Möchtegern-Rebell hat gewonnen – und viele Menschen sind wütend – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Der konstruierte Rechenfehler – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Es gibt kein Leben mehr in dieser Gegend –  With Heiner Hoffmann in Somalia

• Beten für den Frieden, wählen unter Polizeischutz – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Steigende Preise, hohe Schulden – wer führt Kenia aus der Krise? – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Wie Hatespeech im Netz Menschen davon abhält, wählen zu gehen – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Acht Euro für ein paarmal jubeln – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Der Hungerkredit – With Heiner Hoffmann

• Jonas Jonasson: König der Welt – With Volker Weidermann

On Assignment for The Guardian

• ‘She didn’t deserve to die’: Kenya fights tuberculosis in Covid’s shadow – On assignment for The Global Fund published by The Guardian

• Healthcare to go: roadside clinics help keep Kenya’s truckers rolling – With Caroline Kimeu in Mlolongo

• Guards at Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya accused of killings – With Emily Dugan, Edwin Okoth and Matthew Chapman

• ‘They don’t value life’: families fight for answers over Kenya plantation deaths – With Emily Dugan, Edwin Okoth and Matthew Chapman

• Pain of a mother’: families demand justice after deaths near Del Monte farm – With Edwin Okoth in Thika, Emily Dugan and Grace Murray

• Del Monte Kenya representatives accused of seeking to cover up circumstances of men’s deaths – With Edwin Okoth, Emily Dugan and Grace Murray

• Human rights groups investigate death at Kenyan Del Monte pineapple farm – With Emily Dugan , Edwin Okoth and Grace Murray

• As a parent, I lost hope for justice’: family seeking answers over death of man on Del Monte farm – With Edwin Okoth, Emily Dugan and Grace Murray

• World Bank accused of ‘turning blind eye’ to sexual abuse in Kenyan schools it funded

• Balcony churches: Kenyans find new ways to worship in lockdown – The Guardian, with Neha Wadekar
• ‘Granny, don’t kill me’: the 81-year-old training Kenyan women to fend off attackers – With Maurice Oniango for The Guardian

• ‘I saw myself in RuPaul’: how Drag Race inspired LGBTQ+ Kenyans to find freedom – On assignment for The Global Fund published by The Guardian

• Stalked by hunger but fighting obesity: Kenya’s hidden food crisis – With Lizzy Davies for The Guardian

• Joy, despair and determination: photographs from Kibera

• Travel photo of the week: a sharp style and plenty of hope – meet Nairobi’s model citizen

On Assignment for National Geographic

• Human-hippo conflicts are exploding in this pristine patch of Kenya – National Geographic, with Jacob Kushner

• Kenya wants its treasures back. Replicas could spur their return – National Geographic, with Jacob Kushner

Selected Publications

• The Crash of the $8.5 Billion Global Flower Trade – BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK

• A IS FOR ABUSE – With Neha Wadekar

• IN KENYA, USING FUNGI TO FIGHT A WAR ON WEEDS – Roads and Kingdoms, with April Zhu

• How mobile money supercharged Kenya’s sports betting addiction – On Technology Review By Jonathan W. Rosen

• The failed promise of Kenya’s smart city – Rest of World, with CAREY BARAKA

• It takes a village  – Rest of World, with April Zhu

• The community restoring Kenya’s seagrass meadows – With Dominic Kirui for China Dialogue Ocean

• Mosquirix, la nueva aliada contra la malaria entra en acción – On assignment for The Global Fund, written by  ALEJANDRA AGUDO for El Pais

• Caregivers unemployed in Kenya – the sick do not dare to seek help – Arbetet

• Agence France-Presse AFP

• In Kibera, women and children bear the brunt of heavy rains – AL JAZEERA

• The boarding school in Kenya that helps Maasai girls escape FGM – AL JAZEERA

Interviews

• Kenyan photographer captures the bright side of Nairobi’s largest slum – CNN.

• Photography as a means of changing perceptions in Africa – CNN

• Photoville 
• Brian Otieno: The man behind the lens – THE EAST AFRICAN
• Meet the Masterclass East Africa: Brian Otieno by Juliette Garms – World Press Photo
• Kibera Stories – Social Media for Development
• Extraordinary in the ordinary: An insider’s look into Kibera – CGTN
• “Storitellah” | Brian Otieno Sees Impossible – DEVLO MEDIA
• Kibera Stories: The photographer showing a different side to Kenya’s largest slum – CGTN
• A Story Retold

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