With no comprehensive formal transportation system, Nairobi relies on its matatus despite their flaws. Photo credit: shankar s via Flickr This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...

Painted with the faces of celebrities like Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur, and furnished with disco balls that lurch and twinkle as they weave through traffic, the thousands of matatus on the roads in ...

If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads. Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities, the ...