# Nairobi Inequality: Parklands, Kibera and Kenyan Indian Communities

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2109417579026801078
- Source account: [@Yknip1](https://x.com/Yknip1)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:09
- Published: 2026-10-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities) Look at this nice neighborhood. This is a suburb right out of Nairobi, yeah, called Parkland. Nothing but Indians live in this section, and they will not rent to Africans. Look how nice it is. Middle class, suburbia. Now let's take a trip to where the largest slum is in, in Africa, which happens to be in Nairobi. This is Kibra.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=26) I hope I pronounced it right, but this is home to over 1.1 million Kenyans that's living in poverty. Look, a- as far as the eye can see, you see nothing but poverty. And check this out.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=41) This is one of their clinics. This is a clinic.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=45) Y'all see this? This is a clinic. Like, it's like a shack or something less than a shack. This is how the Africans are living in Kenya. One point... Over one point something million African Kenyans, while the Indians, they just living it up, bro.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=63) It's a sad day to be Kenyan in, in Kenya.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=66) And what's devastating about all this is that Kenya had its independence for 61 years, and this, a- and y'all haven't addressed this problem?

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=78) It- nothing changed in 61 years? Wow The first time I interacted with an Indian was in South Africa. Isn't that crazy?

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=86) I'd stayed in my country for over 10 years, and I had never interacted with an Indian. In my country, we have Indians. We have Kenyan Indians, okay?

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=94) I was very impressed, and I came to SA, and I realized that South Africans also have Indian South African Indians or...

[1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=99) And I can tell you that I know so many Kenyans who have never interacted with Kenyan Indians. And it's not like there's any specific reason as to why that has not happened. I don't know. There's just no reason, but I guess it's,

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=109) I guess it's just a way of life in different countries.

[1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=111) But I have never, ever interacted with Indians in my country.

[1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3LxIXQiaABfK/en/nairobi-inequality-parklands-kibera-and-kenyan-indian-communities?t=114) I came to interact with Indians in South Africa, and that's when I learned so much about the Indian community. I used to like Indian food back at home, but I came to eat more Indian foods in South Africa.