Changing face of Kisumu city as posh villas dot lake shores, hills

An aerial view of Kisumu city. [File, Standard]

Kisumu suffers amid plenty and availability. This has been the cry of locals for decades as residents of Kenya’s third-largest city rely on what colonialists built for a population of 40,000 people at the beginning of the 19th century.

With the current population of 1.8 million people, residents require modern buildings to accommodate them.

When journalists asked former Transport...