Kenya: art as a tool for change: Wajukuu Arts in Nairobi’s Mukuru

In the heart of one of Nairobi’s most impoverished neighborhoods, where corrugated iron roofs stretch across the Mukuru slum, a quiet revolution is unfolding. The Wajukuu Arts collective, founded two decades ago by teenagers seeking refuge from gang violence, is using creativity to transform lives and offer alternatives to crime for a new generation.

Established in 2003 during a period of escalating gang violence and police brutality,…