Nairobi holds one of only four major UN headquarters in the world, alongside New York, Geneva, and Vienna. For anyone in this city building a career toward international development, diplomacy, or humanitarian work, that proximity is a genuine advantage. It also means a lot of people are chasing the same
There was a time, not so long ago, when Nairobi's relationship with global trade ran in one direction. Container ships arrived. Goods got unloaded, distributed, sold. The city was a destination, a market to be reached rather than a place where anything actually got decided. That framing is
Westlands looks, on the surface, like any other busy Nairobi suburb: office towers, malls, traffic on Waiyaki Way, a dense strip of restaurants and bars that fills up on Friday nights. What's harder to see from street level is the machinery underneath it, the actual channels through which
For a long time, the story of Nairobi was told from the outside in. It was the gateway to safari, a stopover before the plains, a city defined by what surrounded it rather than what happened within it. That story is no longer accurate, and increasingly, it is no longer
