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Why wealthy homebuyers are betting big on Kawangware
An aerial view of Kawangwae, Nairobi showing informal housing in the foreground contrasted with emerging high-rise residential and commercial buildings in the background, highlighting rapid urban development in the area on January 19, 2026. Lucy Wanjiru | Nation
Kawangware announces itself before it explains itself. The road narrows, with the smell of open trenches competing with the calls of hawkers balancing tomatoes, phone chargers and second-hand shoes on wooden carts.
Tin-roofed shanties lean into each other alongside the interruption of half-finished stone buildings that look lost in the surrounding.
