Slumdog Politics

Photos from Mathare, one of Nairobi's sprawling slums, where warlords, witches, and drug dealers stump for votes ahead of next month's election.

PHOTOS BY MACKENZIE KNOWLES-COURSIN | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Gas is released from fermenting barrels of chang'aa -- a potent, corn-based moonshine -- at the Carribean plant in Mathare. Carribean is the largest producer of the lucrative chang'aa in this slum (and possibly Nairobi) and is owned by John Njenga, a frontrunner in Mathare's race for county representative.

Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin