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Visiting pop stars and politicians made it famous. It featured in the Oscar-winning movie The Constant Gardner. But look at a map and you’ll strain your eyes trying to locate the tin shacks and mud huts of Kibera. Although one of Africa’s more densely populated areas – some 250,000 people crammed into 2.3 sq km – the informal settlement shows up as nothing but “forest” in the Kenyan land registry. The shanty town is just five kilometres south west from Nairobi’s city centre. Official maps pinpoint the Royal Nairobi golf course. But below this, there’s zilch, a big blank space… >>>