Inside Africa's Biggest Slum (Kibera) - Nairobi, Kenya
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Nairobi (Kenya) is a very complex, diverse city. The rich are REALLY rich, and the poor are REALLY poor.
Today I took a trip to a district in Nairobi called Kibera, which is considered to be the biggest urban slum in Africa. More than 1 million people live within 2 square kilometers.
I don't know how many videos it will take me to spread this message, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that people in impoverished areas are significantly happier than the wealthy.
And overall, I've found Kenyan people to be the most heart warming, welcoming and friendly people in Africa (along with Malawians!) Have I mentioned that I love Nairobi?!
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Those kids are adorable.
I hope they have a good future
The kid in the cover looks like he’s flipping the camera off
@@hystericalchike6232 😂he is, actually. The effects of Hollywood on impressionable young minds. But no harm done.
@@proculusjulius7035 lmao I’m pretty sure it’s just a cut off
“How are you man?”
“I don’t know man”
We kenyans are very happy because everybody has his own challenges in this world including the rich countries
The Swizzler yes, it won't.Why should you brag about what you give when you know what you take and embezzle is more?
@The Swizzler it would but I didn't know tax goes to charity
Kenya isn't rich
I live in Kwangware (Kibera)
Yes, I think it is true.
Nobody drinks water from sewage😑,and the population is less than 200 thousand according to the latest census,the number has been exaggerated by NGOs that benefit from setting shop there
Nobody really knows how many people live in Kibich. The estimates are from 700000 to 1000000.
You are wrong some people drink from the river, no one said sewage he said river. Also there is much more hands 200,000
WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT IS FULL OF DOUBLE FACED PEOPLE
“Nobody drinks waster from sewage” your like 20 And I’m 9 years old learning this country and your wrong because that’s the only water they have sewage water
Lol kenyan
“Kaibera“lol 😂 😂 that had me in stitches it’s kibera lol not kaibera
He's american what do you expect?
I am American too but I can can’t butcher a city’s name lol 😂
@@kininga ok how do you pronoucne iraq
How are things now with Coronavirus?
@@awsa961 i can its 'eeraaq'
Well featured. Love from Kenya
Awesome video brother
Nice video drew make sure u visit my beautiful city mombasa next time you come to kenya........ Cheers
This was so accurate compared to what aid seekers show so as to acquire funds
Drew, of course these people know that people on the outside are living a better life than they are living.
I'm Kenyan. This video is marvelously shot. thumbs up Drew
The moral of the story isn't that people living in extreme poverty can be happy even though they don't have easy access to clean water, medical care, and upward mobility. It's great that people can find joy in any circumstance, but the moral of the story is that the wealth of the extremely rich is predicated on the degradation of rights and resources for the poor. Something must be done to change that.
This is not even to mention that the existence of these circumstances is in large part due to the legacy of colonialism and the active measures of the USA, World Bank, and IMF.
You nailed it! Poor people in general have no choice. They must accept their reality in order to live and wealth, that benefit the few, is built on the back of millions who are destined to live a life of poverty.
Your videos are amazing inspiring and so positive
If you ever want to visit Algeria we will be so happy to show you around
I lived in kenya sibnce last july and seing these buildings gives me nostalgia
1:07 lmao 😂😂😂
How old is this video? Kibra has new good high schools. Public taps with new clean water points and ablutions blocks.I pray we get rid of this slum one day through upgrading but NMS has and is doing great.Those railway residents were moved out.
I love this clip! You report the challenges of the district but also show happy people -- and faces of beautiful children -- despite what many feel is abject poverty.
I do agree that the population figure is inflated, however. I have read that it's about 170,000.
Thanks for a fair and balanced report!
All the best brother karibu Africa welcome again zanzibar
Thank you for sharing this side of the equation.
I'm from Kenya and I've been to Kibera.. Now I know much about that side of Kenya
Sasa
My grandmother was told she had 6 months to live at 25, and she lived to be 106. She said her doctor had been dead 50 years. She said stay away from doctors, medications and walk. If given bad news about your health, just do not stress, and let go and let God
God bless her, may she rest in peace.
In someway you can say that doctors are 'prepaid actors', they have to say the stuff that they usually say or else they could lose their job. It's all about the money.
Love it
Very appreciatef Drew
Happiness is indeed the key to Life
Kenyans are very good and friendly, I'm grateful
Asante sana 😄
Nice 👍🏽
:) I’m so happy u visited kenya I’ve been there many times and I’m half Kenyan 2 :)
Which country are you from?
@UnknownAnimations592 they did they are half Kenyan and they said they visited here so clearly they don't live in Kenya
I like your videos but allow me to correct you. The population in Kibera is around 200K and they don't drink water from the rivers full of trash & human faeces. They buy water piped through the slum illegally. If you walk through the streets you will be able to see the pipes.
I tend to think some foreign people are obsessed with Kibera,it like a tourist attraction to them..Let me go there take a few pics so people can see how humble i am,"white saviour mentality".In real essence you got the wrong info,the number of people living there is far less,Lord,no one drinks sewage water,come on!,they buy water that are bought in drums..Kids there do go to school..and Surprise,its actually no longer the largest slum in Africa,the Kenyan government together with UN habitat built houses for the people a while back,the houses are right next to the slums,you cant miss them..But oh wait,that wont be interesting to show so instead lets show the same old cliche of poor,devasted Africans.
Tata 1 Exactly, I really hate when people go to Africa say they want a good time but yet they go to places they know is not the best and say “this is Nairobi” I hate that cliche they always use ignorance ruins the world.
its a capitalist country not a communist ...you eat what you work for
I wonder why he dint show the better buildings build besides kibera for the kibra residents
Shud_ Kipz what about the slums in
Mexico
Phillipines
India
Oooh
I cannot wait for the day Kibera will be non-existent but the fools will still say it is "the largest slum in Africa". Kibera is not even oin the top 10 largest slums in Africa if accurate information was used than the peddled ESTIMATES they throw around. Besides, there are worse slums in Africa, Europe, Asia and USA!!
Do they give tours of kibera? Thx for the video.
acording to the kenya bureau of statistic 2019 censas report the population of kibra is estimated to be around 185,777 idont under stand were did you get that finger of 1.000.000
About an year or year and half ago, the numbers were revised after census. NGOs (both local and international) had been exaggerating the situation of Kibra for decades for funding. It's also not the largest, it's 2nd largest in Africa.
Looking at the time this video was taken I wouldn't blame him for using the old wrongly reported numbers.
@@t0n0k0 It is not even the second largest on Africa, there are worse on the African continent. Do you know 35 African do not even have figures of their slum population? The Kibera figures were not even revised, those figures have been there but ignored, 2009 census showed 170,170. 2019 population is 185,777. Them idiots have to raise funds, so they stick to their 500,000- 1million. Besides, there have been slum upgrading programs. But they will chose the oldest and worst looking areas footage to maintain the narrative. It is just sick!!
They have to keep lying, how else will they raise money to come and enjoy beautiful Kenya?
I’m headed here in a few weeks to do a VR / 360 content for a clean water project!
wow bro
They don't drink dirty water ...who does that.... While u can get sick... They have access to clean water..... I love my country 😍😍
Am proud of my country and my home residence
kenyans are happy and so hospitable people. i like you blogs drew. though point of correction, kibera is not such populous, nairobi has a pulation of less than 5 million. no way a third of the entire city population would be living in kibera
True,,, the population of kibera has been highly inflated,,,, I believe this has negatively affected how the world view Kenyan to a certain point,,,,,, and yes the living standards should be improved for the kibra residents
Personally, I think it is very ignorant to claim “they don’t know about a different life”
Yeah he’s ignorant especially in his video about the slums in India
For someone who travels the world he’s exceptionally stupid
When i was in a trip to kenya my mom was scared of kibera but it looks like a friendly place
no it's not don't go there by yourself you can get snatched like a weave and disappear
@@LilKenuthia atttiiiiii
@@imani3975 its true i know people who have gone there you have to have security holding your arm if you go inside especially if you are a foreigner
@@LilKenuthia not true , vloggers go there . I’ve seen white you tubers do videos there , as long as you are with a local it’s fine
@@imani3975 wow then i guess what people who have gone there told me is wrong
Like your videos but the population myth of kibara was debunked. They are less than a quarter of that. Apparently ngos get more money when they say that glaring "1 million" number. But it is a shame all the same how people in nairobi are on opposite ends o living standards. There's A slum next door to a golf course
Also lots of money goes into Kibera and nothing really changes.
The people themselves have to change as opposed to merely throwing money at the problem.
People generally just throw their rubbish anywhere as opposed to bagging it or putting it in a single place. I was quite stunned at that attitude when I witnessed it.
Many people in Kenya have a "give me something" attitude which only perpetuates the problems. Education and instilling responsibility is more important than handouts. Handouts induce dependency and lack of self value.
yeah the numbers made me turn my head sidways. just 2km sq? doesn't seem possible
No where near a million. You can walk from one side to the other in about 30 minutes.
Couple hundred thousand at most imo and maybe even less.
lol i remember when they started peddling that figure in the mid 2000's when the population of the entire city was 3mill. these ngo's are sneaky smart. then this other fool in the video actually thinks they drink sewage water. i just had to face palm myself a couple of times. and i know kibera well. i used to buy my weed there, surprisingly good
@@Skinski7 thanks to address this, people hate their life.....it is very sad if we fail to organise ourselves eti because we are poor
Population of 1M highly overstated. Approximately 0.25M persons as per most recent census (2019).
Good kids
Oh 3 years ago? So much has Changed in terms of public services at Kibra
Motivated mindset dancers
I went to kibera in 2012 to teach at spurgeons academy for a week with a charity. Such an eye opening experience and id love to go back and visit my friends (that I still keep in contact with) one day ❤
In the same spirit that the govt of Kenya is procuring funds for infrastructure development projects, surely they should come up with a formidable plan to construct long storeyed flats with many units to house these unfortunate Kenyans and do away with these shacks that are an eye sore on the image of Kenya once and for all. The remaining land can be rehabilitated for other projects and the rivers that flow thru the slum cleaned. No one else should be allowed to put up such structures thereafter when all affected persons are housed and comfortably accomodated in the new house units.
I heard they did build multi high rise apartments but charge then high rent for it.
I'm sorry but me and my brother have been laughing at you for saying Kibera wrong since we saw this
also 1:10 is too funny for me
Did you notice that it looked like the kid all the way on the left of the thumbnail pointed the middle finger?
Happiness & love. HA YOU SHUCK THAT NOT TRUE
0:28
Saddest part of the video! I feel bad for this people. The government should make serious plans to ensure this people's sanitation. It's really awful, man!
Yes happiness and love maybe the keys to life, but those two depends on so many other things. How could you say they are happy by looking at smiling children?? You have to talk with adults who face the real life.
It is just like in MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Most activists overstate the population numbers inorder to get funding for communities living in poor slum areas like Kibera.The most recent cencus in 2019 only reflected barely 200K people living there.
On the thumbnail, the kid on the left is pointing the middle finger
Look at the cover of this video and look at the hand sign that kid is throwing up 🤣😂🤣
Im in the city side with big buildings
The reality is that families who move to slums from the countryside mostly leave a good life behind where they had everything, in hopes of getting a job in an office which to them seems like getting paid big for nothing, and buying big cars and houses while at it, and they think anyone can do that and they only have to move to the city for that... When in fact they trade up decent work and decent living to live dirt poor from then.
I can tell you for a fact that this is untrue, in Kenya at least. Though most rural Kenyans have a place to live (in their rural homes), most rural areas are cash-strapped with no jobs or opportunities, they move to Nairobi to make a living. The majority of them do not have the education required to get office jobs, they mostly get by with odd jobs and casual labor. The slightly luckier ones might get stable employment as househelps, gardeners etc.
@@mikeantonin7580 if you got a house in a rural area you can start a business... but all the fanciness they see draws them into the city by the droves with a promise of quick success but eventually to no avail. Those smarter either start a business back home or prioritize studying before anything
@@mysteriousDSF
Most Kenyans (even the poor) have rural homes. It's not really a sign of wealth though, the land many own is family owned or inherited and is only big enough for their house and sometimes a small farm, it's not uncommon to still see mud walled houses over there. Poverty is still rife in many of these places.
Starting a business requires capital which is obviously unavailable to many, and even if you started a business there's only so much money you can make in a place with a weak economy. As for education, many rural schools offer poor quality education meaning low performance and a lot of families can't even raise the money to send their kids to school thus keeping them in poverty.
I assure you that anyone who was making really good money in their rural home would not throw it all away to start over in a place like Kibera.
@@mikeantonin7580 understandable, but the lack of motivation and the promise of an easy life is an important factor which I think is a lot more prevalent today than in the past.
@@mysteriousDSF
All the motivation in the world is useless if you don't have any opportunities. And as I said earlier, these people move to look for work to sustain themselves, they certainly do not believe that everything will be easy when they move.
KENYA MY LAND
i come from kenya
Nicer than Detroit.
1:07🤣
Kibera
How are things now with Coronavirus?
The government implemented a curfew so everybody by 7pm is indoors and no going outside without a mask
@@litclipss7492 kkkk 2sq Kilometres Oo 2 million ku nooshahay Iyadaa Suuqa Ka daranba😂
I’m Kenyan
Sasa
Drew Binsky is the best.
-0:53 my name is coi emmanuel cole from america
Something Kenyan's enjoy most is
Eating ugali
Eating more ugali
Imitating Pidgin English
eating more ugali
and imitating American English. Trust me, Im kenyan :) 1:10
Actually there's tap running water in most areas of kibera. It's wrong to say they drink water from the streams full of shit. I think you got your info from Wikipedia.
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KIBERA'S POPULATION IS NOT OVER 1 MILLION,IT IS ABOUT 200K.
All I can say is why does the 🇰🇪 Government allow these things to happen?!
Greed, you should see the training facilities for their olympic runners, plus Nairobi gets a lot of tourist traffic, gov puts it all in their pockets.
The landlords went to courts and stopped the Kenya Slum Upgrading project after Phase 1 since 2004
It's cause the powerful Kikuyus and Kalenjins in the government hate Kenyans, that's why slums like these exist in Kenya
1:27
He said there are two sides of Nairobi and showed only one side.
For anyone who cares it's "Key"bera
I watched this in my school and I already knew about the people there drink the rivers
I've been in Kenya for over twenty years and yet didn't visit Kibera..
IbnuMustacid Productions it’s because this video is western propaganda they show the bad side more then the good.
who else clicked on this video because their teacher set it for class
It's almost like the less stuff people have, the more they enjoy their lives.
I mean I'm sure there's a certain threshold of having at least your basic needs met
Slums call this place a slum
1:42 The moral of the story is ignorance is bliss. They don't know what they don't know.
What noticed
Poor=Happy
More poor=More happy
The Poorer=the more happy
Gaming and Stuff how can u be happy if u have no money to live ? Lmaoo
If given a chance, I'm sure every one of these people would want a better life.
What I want to know is how people spend years on the road and traveling… Traveling is so expensive
Where are Oxfam? Comic Relief? Amref?
Exploitation
can some1 explain y rich people r more rude than poor people
Wanachoma 😂
Miss information.
Total white-washing. I went to Kibera as well, and while I agree that it's important to show that happiness exists in these places, you really don't do justice to the challenges that exist here. As a videographer you have a communication responsibility, and publishing short snipits of contexts such as these undermines both these communities and the real discussion that is taking place within and about these places. You're not fooling anyone. You went there to get exotic footage to get thumbs up.
lol you just trolling..make your own video
The place is a shithole - the entire sub-Saharan continent is a dysfunctional nightmare of filth and corruption, as a matter of fact - and you want to sprinkle your woke criticism? Go drink out of a river and post a better video.
I don't care how poor you are but NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, drinks water that has human poop. I train teens in Kibera, the heart of the slum and I have not seen nor heard this. For this derogatory remark you get a thumbs down.
Y,all just haters
When he said the other side is called Kibera as Kiebera
My kenyan self was literally screaming ITS KEEBERA BOI
Ehh same
Hey Drew, great video. Would you be willing help me with a bit of your
drone footage for a video that I want to create to promote a school
project that we are running in Kibera? For more about what we do as a
charity, kindly log on to www.maishatrust.org or check our facebook
page: Maisha Trust. You can also see some past videos that I have done
for the project on my channel. Will be eternally grateful if this can happen.
Thanks
Probably went back to your $100 a night hotel and quaffed champagne
First
they dont drink that water..they know better..😠
Liar liar liar... Kibera does not have 1million people. Census in 2009 indicated less than 170K. Also Kindly refer to the 2019 census. Stop inflating figures to gain more donor support.
It's not the biggest slum
smartyboy 05 it is angry kenyan
The biggest city in East Africa and biggest slum in Africa Nairobi😂😂😂
maneno clais sooo
The biggest city is dar
@@malibolosedlaminithambo6249 Not Dar Dandora
maneno clais darlesalam
This is fucking rude.
This what happens cartels infest gorverment grand corruption and extreme poverty.
Worst representation of Kibera and my country I’ve ever watched. Sad