One of the authors is currently engaged in conducting a social survey in one of the villages of Mathare and in a few months should be able to present much more exact data to describe the area's population.
2.
The first three villages consist of mud and wattle houses that are tightly packed together. There are about 1,000 houses in these three. Village 4 consists of only 70 houses which are spread out across a wide area. Most houses in village 4 have a small piece of land which the residents farm intensively. In addition, there are stone quarries which provide work for about 75 to 100 men in the area. There are three other areas of settlement between Mathare and Kariobangi sometimes associated with the Valley. But they are not included in the overall political organization of the Mathare area.
3.
This method of selection of the committe applies in village-2.
4.
Such meetings of the entire community are held every few weeks and permit the village chairman to announce policy decisions to the community as well as ask for their advice on new matters than arise.
5.
J.D. MacArthur, Kericho Report, p. 125.
6.
op. cit p. 131.
7.
Kenya (1962) 7.8 per cent in urban areas of over 2,000 population. Tanzania (1957) 4.1 per cent. Uganda (1959) 2.4 per cent.
8.
Report to the City Council, City of Nairobi "Planning Report No. 1, Population", N. S. Mwenja, City Engineer. Nairobi, January 1967, pp. 27-33.
9.
Philip Ndegwa and Ole David Koht Norbye in the Kericho Report, pp. 96, 97.
10.
Frederick H. Harbison, Kericho Report, p. 191.
11.
The £1 million Pumwani Redevelopment Scheme is an examplo of this policy.
12.
It has been estimated that by the year 2050, no less than 91 per cent of the world's population will be living in towns or cities. This has suggested the concept of "Ecumenopolis", or World City, as a single, integrated, urban complex in which nearly all the human race would live with transport and communications networks spanning deserts or oceans and linking the various "districts" of World City.
13.
See "Kariobangi Site and Service Scheme Survey" prepared by J. P. Mbogua, B.A. (Lond.), M.A. (McGill), The Director of Social Services and Housing, City Hall, Nairobi, Kenya. November 1965.
14.
See P. Marris : Family and Social Change in an African City: A Study of Rehousing in Lagos. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1962.
15.
If other establishments in the Mathare Valley, such as the Mathare Mental Hospital, are to be connected to the city's sewerage system, a pumping station lower in the Valley will become necessary in any case.
