Fitzroy has long endured a tense tug of war between gentrification and a battle to hold on tightly to its creativity, ...

By 2063, Africa’s cities will host an additional one billion people. Yet today, 23 of the continent’s 52 countries remain low-income, with more than 80% of urban jobs in the informal sector. For ...

In Nairobi’s New Mukuru Housing Estate, residents who once lived in congested shacks now enjoy modern apartments with private bathrooms, clean water, reliable electricity, free Wi-Fi, and cooking gas ...

Illegally placed electrical wires that are sometimes poorly insulated, plus the dumping of fuel in storm drains, spell ...

This technical breakthrough is seen as critical in Mukuru’s dense, informal terrain, where narrow, unpaved corridors wind ...

Paul Grondahl is the Opalka Endowed Director of the NYS Writers Institute at the University at Albany and a former Times ...

Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighborhood of Pakadjuma has struggled to end a cholera epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in the ...

Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn’t typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of payment. Around 200 ...

A Kenyan company has introduced bitcoin into what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum. (AP video by Moses Ndungu).

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of ...