Nairobi represents the whole nature of colonialism: the transfer, or theft, of wealth from what we now call the Global South to the West. Far from a thing of the past, since the capitalist system could only sustain its “infinite”…

During my time as Research Fellow for Mathare Social Justice Center, in Nairobi, I got to participate very closely with MSJC’s Water Justice Campaign which tackled water insecurity. In Mathare, Nairobi’s second-largest informal settlement, water is never just water. It…