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MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga’s ...

Imagine sleeping in a wire cage smaller than a prison cell, cockroaches beneath your back, and air so toxic it makes your lungs bleed. In cities like Manila and Jakarta, this is not an exception ...

Evicted before for not paying the landlord on time, the 54-year-old tailor built a one-room mud shack four months ago for his wife and seven children in Nairobi's Kibera slum -- a sprawling area ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo chronicles the hardscrabble lives of some of Mumbai's poorest — and most inventive — people in her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers.

Holding firmly at a cue-stick on his right hand, the young man bends over a table strewn with tiny but differently coloured and numbered.

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House) This book should come with a warning: Reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that ...