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Click to hide this space NAIROBI – In Kenya, there is a running gag that sums up how far away the Turkana people live from the rest of us. When a Turkana man leaves for the capital, Nairobi, the joke goes, he tells his family, “I’m going to Kenya.” In recent weeks, ever since Kenya’s government announced that oil had been discovered in the Lake Turkana basin, more jokes have emerged. A picture of unidentified happy, half-naked black children I had seen on my Facebook friends’ profiles many months ago began circulating again, this time with the caption, “Discover Oil in Turkana…No More Dry Skin.”
At first, I chuckled at the jokes. The creator of the picture was implying that now that oil has been found in northwestern Kenya, Western oil workers will descend on the region and impregnate Turkana women, perhaps against their will. The Turkana people are, as the joke suggests, as far away from Nairobi as one can be without being foreigners. The Pickers of Dandora - By Micah Albert. East Africa's most populous city, Nairobi, is a booming metropolis, regional headquarters to major international corporations like Coca-Cola and Google, and filled with upwardly mobile urban dwellers.
And all the trash they produce has to go somewhere. It ends up in Dandora, the city's only municiple dumpsite, where thousands of workers -- men, women, and children -- pick through refuse daily, looking for food and recyclable scraps to sell. It's a hard, toxic life -- but it's also the only job available, and as the Nairobi city council considers closing the site and moving it across town, they fear losing even this most unwelcome resource. As David Conrad writes for Foreign Policy, "They are fully aware that Dandora is not good for their health, but a slow death is better than no life at all. " Here, photographer Micah Albert takes a look at the lives of the people who make their living scouring the massive waste land.