About

Nicera Wanjiru Kimani

My name is Nicera I am from Nairobi, Kenya and I live in the informal settlements of Kibera. I am the founder of Community Mappers, a woman leader in my community, a federation member at Muungano Wa Wanavijiji and also I tell stories about communities with my pen and a camera. I have lived in an informal settlement for a decade and seen lot of activities going on, both positive and negative. But the mainstream media only seem to report the negative sides of my community. I see very much less news about the positive. This and other factors me to tell stories about communities, stories that you will never see in the mainstream maybe because for them it is not important or it doesn’t suit them. After research targeting two communities, we did a video about trash piles in our communities, and where they are located. We have done a film about evictions as well. I have written articles which I would really love to do films about, as I did with this group.