The Group
A group of creative professionals pulled together by different strands of the city. Looking at the myriad angles through writers’ journeys, photographers, technical artists and others who will take Nairobi apart with their imagination.

Nairobi is an organism, a place that first creates its own meaning, that then invites reflection distorting the identity that was first presumed. Nairobi’s full name: Enkare el Nairobi—the highly elevated place of cool waters, a watering hole, a swampy pastureland and a transit zone for passing nomads and four rivers. Before it returned to its name Nairobi it was named Mile 329. A railway depot.

The city suffered an outbreak of plague, and later was burnt down—the usual baptism of fire all cities seem to undergo.

The Images
24 Nairobi project is intended as a showcase of alternative, innovative, realistic and professional African aesthetic and perspective. It brings together local, regional and international creative professionals to work to evolve powerful and realistic images and narratives that would reflect the working-life diversity, cultures, energy and dimensions of cities in Africa.

Nairobi is an immigrant city built over the last one hundred and three years. Everybody feels welcome here because almost all the cultures have added to it, African, Asia and European.

The game park is next door...

Contrast and contradictions, paradox and passions. It is a network of relationships, ‘ I know a guy’ gets more things done than following any procedures.

Nothing in this city is really what it first appears to be.

The City
For some Nairobi is the best city in the world:
It has no pretensions, the social structure has no layers of history. It is a new city. Badly planned, no layout, an intricate web of personal relationships. The city is laid back about its peculiarities, little angst about its cultural enclaves. It is probably the only city in the world where all nations have a representative.

It is a city with secrets. Surprise and unexpectedness.