Kenya: How Stark Inequality Frustrates the Dreams of Nairobi's Jobless Young Men

[The Conversation Africa] "Today I woke up late, because there was nothing I was doing," Wilfred* wrote in his diary. Like many of his peers, the 21-year-old lacks permanent employment, seeking small amounts of cash from odd jobs carried out in the town where he lives on the northern outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.