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

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

• 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 

Selected Publications

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

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

• Balcony churches: Kenyans find new ways to worship in lockdown – The Guardian, with Neha Wadekar

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

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

• Agence France-Presse AFP

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

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

• Jonas Jonasson: König der Welt – DER SPIEGEL

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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