Forget urban slums: Kenya's forgotten housing crisis in rural areas

Children play outside a mud-walled house in Suswa, Narok. [Robert Kiplagat, Standard]

As the debate on the construction of affordable housing in urban areas rages on, millions of Kenyans living in rural areas continue to inhabit derelict structures.

Yet the focus has always been on what happens in the towns where population densities are high and economic activities are a lot more.