"Beauty is your birthright" proclaims the Eclipse Hair Salon. The Enlightened Electricals store features paintings of bulbs, switches, sockets, and plugs. More than one shack hotel sports the name "Hotel Hilton," while elsewhere "Joy Hotel" is scrawled in white paint across corrugated metal panels.

"Ghetto life is not easy" says the facade of the Abdalla Store. Indeed not: these are people for whom the threat of hunger is never far away, and money is a constant preoccupation. Yet in poignant and frank interviews with Steve Bloom, Kenyans display extraordinary generosity: their priorities are faith, family, love, community, and helping others.

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Format: Hardcover
Author: Bloom, Steve
ISBN: 9780500543818
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.88 x 0.80
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Year: 2009

Trading Places: The Merchants of Nairobi

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