You might drive past Gigiri and still have no idea that the collection of buildings bordering Karura Forest is one of only four major United Nations headquarters in the world, and the only one on the African continent. New York, Geneva, and Vienna get most of the global attention. Nairobi&
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
