“Postcards from Kibera” are images of this slum imagined by some visitors who took part in the organized Kibera tours in 2015 and 2016. Visitors were asked the question:
If you could make a postcard from Kibera, what would you put on it?
“I remember the train passing…” (26th of August 2015)
“It would be a street with people walking” (23th of August 2015)
“Different projects that we visited, to show people that these people are one of communities, that people of Kibera are not just given up on themselves that they are actually doing something active to improve their lives” (27th of August 2016)
“Just people working, just doing anything, on the market or in the shop or something like that, I think that’s the best way to represent this place” (11th of August 2016)
“Shop, it is very descriptive [for this place]” (28th of August 2015)
“The landscape from the viewpoint because you can see all the district, all the view” (2nd of September 2015) / “All the roofs” (20th of August 2015)
“I would put a child in a school uniform which is perfectly clean in one of the dirty streets” (26th of July 2016) / “I would have a picture of children in clean clothes walking along one of the worst streets, contrasting their clothes and this place, their faces are so amazing… in contrast to the running sewage and things like that” (29th of July 2016)
“I will remember Kibera with children… the happy smiling children” (26th of August 2015)
“I put different enterprises, so the biogas, and the enterprises that are going on the market” (26th of July 2016)
“I liked paintings on shop fronts, on barbers shops, fashion shops, murals, I think they are very distinctive, they are so beautiful, simple and they could bring joy around the world to the postman” (29th of July 2016)
“Collage of several pictures… more detailed [image] of the daily life of people living here” (6th of August 2015)
“The viewpoint that you could see the houses in Kibera and the new houses in the rest of Nairobi, that’s you see both worlds” (11th of August 2016)