Pay up or get out! Nairobi’s slumlords | DW Documentary

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Pay up or get out! Nairobi’s slumlords | DW Documentary


Residents of Nairobi’s slums who can’t pay their rent get evicted and end up on the street. Over 90 percent of these tenants live in rented corrugated-metal shacks owned by slumlords with terrible reputations.

The slumlords of Nairobi mercilessly exploit the poorest of poor. One young man was shot and killed over five months’ rent, while…

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22 Comments

  1. Thats a well-spoken gang member. It is as if he saw a foreign news crew and decided to play gang-member. Such people are often uneducated and with a poor grasp of foreign languages

  2. 30 euros for rent there??? Im in shock. I lived in Nairobi in 2022. My gf rented a spacious 30sm flat in a decent neighborhood for 7k shilling, or 58usd. Something doesnt add up here. Two people can share a lovely flat for 30 euros each

  3. The rich and corrupted Nigerian politicians and businessmen must be the slumlords customers. They are doing nothing to improve the social situation. Do the dwellers in this slum pay for water and electricity? In the South African slums, they steal them, don't have to pay. Anti-corruption is not observed in many countries, especially in Africa. The citizens need to rebel against the government. The international community can freeze the assets overseas of the wicked Nigerians and other nationals.

  4. I wish government in my state of California would waive my $10,000 property and help me pay $4,000 mortgage if they want me not kick out tenant. Lots of landlords lost their property because tenants live rent free during covid. Landlords still have to pay bill during covid

  5. Africans!!! Yani your main concern is pronunciation,,, how is mispronunciation disrespect,,, the same way you can also make the mistake coz we don't speak same vernacular language different

  6. I grow up in a family of descending business owners, everyone in my family owns or had owned a business as their source of income. Growing up being taught how to run a business by my father have always created some sort of moral dillema. Ofcourse my father doesn't result to illegal activities and or including violence, but as a result i've always tried to put myself in the business owner's perspective on things like this. In no way i condone violence for anything, but in a hard country like Kenya, it may possibly be the only way. I don't expertise in business that involves other people's livelihood, very far from it. However, my dad has always taught me to not involve feelings (even with relatives) to business activities. imagine being a captain of a ship and always letting anyone to come in, somewhere somehow someone will enter the ship and mess things up. But i digress, i just wonder if we can really blame the "slumlords" here, not for the violence ofcourse, but with their way of doing business in general.