Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Hope in hell

Hope in hell

issue 18 February 2006

Nairobi

The finest view of what Kenya’s corrupt political leaders have done to this beautiful nation may be observed from the summit of Africa’s largest rubbish dump, Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite. A horde of children and women are sifting through the stinking trash, recovering scrap metal to be sold at twopence a kilo.

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