Nairobi’s expansion is swallowing up rural land: new book reveals the impacts on families

The Nairobi skyline in the background is seen from Gachie in neighbouring Kiambu County. Nairobi’s transformation into a “world-class city” is both anticipated and celebrated in Kenya’s media. A new book, Peasants to Paupers: Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya , examines how the city’s expansion conceals…