Nairobi wins the prize for greenery with its acres of vegetation. Its verdancy is credited to the late environmentalist and Nobel prize winner Wangari Maathai, whose organisation Green Belt Movement planted tens of millions of trees.
Read MoreBoniface Mwangi, Kenya’s political firebrand and award-winning photojournalist, was thrust into the limelight in 2007 when his photos—documenting the horrors of his country’s post-election violence—were broadcast by news outlets around the world. Now, he runs for a seat in Parliament.
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