The investigation traces how Nairobi shifted, from sanctuary to something else entirely.
For decades, East Africa’s most connected city has offered a place to regroup, to publish, to breathe. For journalists, activists, and refugees fleeing repression across the region, Nairobi has been the answer to the question of where to go.
It may no longer be.
A new investigation documents a pattern that has been quietly and systematically building for nearly three decades, almost entirely without consequence.