1869 HABITAT REVIEW 14(2) (2020) AFRICA Graffiti Artists in East Africa

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

Enhancing Visual Aids in Training of Child Caregivers in Day-cares Within Nairobi’s Urban Informal Settlements

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

Waste Minimization Strategy for Sustainable Interior Design

Recently, interior design has experienced a dramatic change with the incorporation of strategies which
emphasizes the designing of environmentally sustainable and healthy spaces for people to live in, work in
and play in. The awareness of environmental accountability has sparked the necessity for environmentally
sustainable interior design practice. Society at large is starting to recognize the link between spaces,
people and the community. In Kenya there are no clear waste minimization strategies that interior