Hope for homeless city dwellers

Experiences from models in London, Tokyo, Boston and Moscow have shown that it is the work of the Government to take the lead in housing its urban population and Nairobi should not be any different, writes Peter Thatiah

Africa, particularly Kenya, is rapidly moving into that perilous phase of development where Europe, Japan and America were before the Great Depression of the 1930s. Never again have rural dwellers abandoned their villages for the cities at the rate that they are doing now across Africa.