{"id":201753,"date":"2021-09-12T23:35:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/pasha-124-how-nairobis-informal-settlements-got-their-names\/"},"modified":"2021-09-12T23:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T21:35:02","slug":"pasha-124-how-nairobis-informal-settlements-got-their-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pasha-124-how-nairobis-informal-settlements-got-their-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasha 124: How Nairobi&#8217;s informal settlements got their names"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pasha-124-how-nairobis-informal-settlements-got-their-names.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Nairobi, Kenya\u2019s capital city, started as a railway depot in 1899 and developed into a colonial administration centre, then into a commercial and regional hub. Informal settlements in the city grew in parallel, arising from colonial policies that excluded local people from permanent residence, and driven by demand for housing. <\/p>\n<p>The names of these informal settlements \u2013 and the names of places within them \u2013 capture their history and act as a voice for their residents. Place names tell us about politics, culture and the challenges of people who live there. <\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode of Pasha, The Conversation Weekly\u2019s Gemma Ware chats to Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita, a lecturer at the Technical University of Kenya, about Nairobi\u2019s informal settlements and how they got their names.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> <em> <strong> Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-fascinating-history-of-how-residents-named-their-informal-settlements-in-nairobi-159080\">The fascinating history of how residents named their informal settlements in Nairobi<\/a> <\/strong> <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Photo:<\/strong><br \/>\u201cKosovo, the name of an area in an informal settlement.\u201d By M\u00e9lissa Wanjiru.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cHappy African Village\u201d by John Bartmann, found on <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/John_Bartmann\/Public_Domain_Soundtrack_Music_Album_One\/happy-african-village\">FreeMusicArchive.org<\/a> licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack To My Roots\u201d by John Bartmann, found on <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/frankum\/sounds\/393520\/\">Freesound<\/a> licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\">Attribution 4.0 International License.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/africa\/\">Source: The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, Kenya\u2019s capital city, started as a railway depot in 1899 and developed into a colonial administration centre, then into a commercial and regional hub. Informal settlements in the city grew in parallel, arising from colonial policies that excluded local people from permanent residence, and driven by demand for housing. 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