By Arjun Kohli This story was published by Reuters in May 2006. KIKUYU, Kenya (Reuters) – Maria Wangari winces in fright as a team of young men approach her quarry in rural Kenya with a bag of cheap dynamite. Two of her sons — including her youngest David, 19, who has Down’s Syndrome — have […]

By Arjun Kohli This story was published by Reuters in July 2006 NAIROBI (Reuters) – The black sports car maneuvers through the shoppers thronging Nairobi’s River Road and stops. “Ringtone,” a Kenyan gospel singer, steps out and heads into Nduti One Stop Shop to check on sales of his latest music video. “He’s sold more […]

By Arjun Kohli This story was published by Reuters in September 2006. NAIROBI (Reuters) – Raphael Wambua’s family scream at the 18-year-old to come down as he and his two brothers, 14 and 16, perch on a ledge two floors above a communal courtyard. But instead of walking back down, they jump from the ledge […]

By Arjun Kohli This story was published by Reuters in September 2006. Read it on Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) – A man breaks into a cold sweat. He falls to the ground then comes up to kneel. He sways with his hands clasped, his eyes shut and his lips quivering. The fervor of African drum beats […]

By Arjun Kohli This story was published by Reuters in January 2008. Read it on Reuters. MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Tourists arriving in Mombasa on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast were expecting to find the usual colorful fruit and vegetable markets lining the streets. Instead, they found angry supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga roaming the […]

Six accounts by the Corridor Diagnostic Study’s communications offcer, Arjun Kohli, written on two photographic missions along parts of the Northern and Central Corridors in November 2009 and April 2010. To read this story with images view the PDF version.   Leaving Nairobi and the Truck Drivers at Mai Mahiu The car had been booked […]

By Arjun Kohli This piece was published in May 2016 Swathes of people moved to the side of a bumpy road to make way for a procession of cars that wound its way slowly through the densely populated slum of Kawangware just after the rains this May. The near one million residents of this informal […]

The best qualities of the Kenya Horticultural Society budded this May and flowered in June as society members with the privilege of time attended a series of garden lectures in beautiful gardens across Nairobi to learn more about their favorite hobby. Lectures were held in some of the most established and interesting gardens in Kenya […]