In this paper, we investigate the physical manifestation of ongoing urban habitat transformation in the
context of a residential neighbourhood, Kileleshwa, which is located in the western suburbs of Nairobi.
This is done through an analysis of the emergent morphology of the urban habitat by delving into various
levels of urban resolution: the street network, the plots, and the buildings, while tracing the roots of the
neighbourhood in the colonial era and its rapid change in the current millennium. In so doing, the aim

The desire of people to leave their mark on walls has been around for thousands of years. Archaeologists
have found graffiti scratched on walls in the city of Pompeii as old as 1908. This paper looks at graffiti
designed by the East African graffiti artists and their works as an art and design form. It also sought to
establish how they have used graffiti as a social economic impact factor to change themselves and the
environment around them for the better. The study applied desktop and multiple case study research

As of 2017 there were 300,000 children living in Nairobi’s informal settlements and at least 2,700 informal
daycares run by owners with little or no formal training on Early Childhood Education and a majority with
low education levels. There have been some efforts to train caregivers in order to improve the quality
of their services. Visual aids are inappropriately used in the training of these child caregivers. Studies
show that visual aids are highly successful in any behavioural change program because they aid the