Karibu Nyaggah was born in Nairobi and spent his early twenties with every academic door open to him. He had also never been to the part of his own city where most of it lives. On a trip he took alone, a young man asked him a question that had nothing to do with money, and it stayed with him for years before it became anything. This is the conversation about what he saw, what he did with it, and how he decided to move.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
➡️ Proximity to a place is not the same as understanding it. Karibu was Kenyan, born in Nairobi, and did not encounter the reality of an informal settlement until his mid twenties.
➡️ People in poverty are often asking for work, not relief. The young man Karibu met did not ask for money. He asked whether anyone needed someone for a job.
➡️ Conviction rarely arrives with a plan. Karibu describes the trip as planting a seed with no sense of what, how, or when.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Every door open and a different choice
02:21 - Riding a matatu alone into an informal settlement
05:17 - A seed planted without a plan
08:22 - The morning he knew he would apply
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