Comedians born in Kibera

Rather than a city of its own, Kibera is a crowded neighbourhood within Nairobi, frequently ranked among the largest informal settlements anywhere on the continent. Its close-knit residents have earned a name for homegrown talent in sport, theatre, music and film, upending outsiders' assumptions about the place.

That same street-level inventiveness feeds directly into Nairobi's growing comedy circuit, where performers who got their start in neighbourhoods like Kibera are increasingly booked on bigger city stages, among them comedian Eunice Wanjiru Njoki.