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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Creolizing the Hustle: Social History of a Concept
  10. 2. Self-Help City: The Making of a Hustling Class
  11. 3. Straight Outta Dumpsite: Youth-Led Waste Economy
  12. 4. The Business and Politics of Shit: Sanitation Entrepreneurship
  13. 5. Ghetto Gal: Gender, Life, and Work at the Urban Margins
  14. 6. Stayers and Leavers: Building Up the Breakdown
  15. 7. Storytellers Performing the Hustle: Hip-Hop, Street Tours, and Digital Narrations
  16. Conclusion: Hustle Nation?
  17. Afterword: A Response
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. Series List Continued (2 of 2)
  23. Author Biographies

Index

  • Achebe, Chinua, 257
  • activism: community-based organizations (CBOs) and, 75, 92–94, 204–5; Eliza and, 176, 191, 193; hip-hop as, 257; rights to the city and, 205–6; Rosie and, 234–35; Sammy and, 235–37; selfie as, 264; storytelling and, 264, 266; waste economy and, 87–88
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 324n10
  • Africa Uncensored, 294
  • Ahuja, Simone, 136
  • Akech, Akoko, 280
  • Alam, Shahidul, 29
  • alcohol abuse, 115–17
  • Ambani, Brian, 282
  • Amin, Ash, 210–11, 223
  • Apollo, Rosebella, 298
  • Appadurai, Arjun, 223
  • Archambault, Julie, 252
  • Archer, Kenna Lang, 313–14n3
  • Arora, Payal, 262–63
  • Atieno-Odhiambo, Eisha Stephen, 68, 78
  • auto-gestion (self-management), 82, 121, 125
  • Baldwin, James, 99
  • Banerjee, Abhijit, 142
  • Base of the Pyramid (BoP) protocol, 135–36, 140, 143–47, 164. See also Community Cleaning Services (CCS)
  • Bayat, Asef, 320n18
  • baze (base): Eliza and, 183–84, 185–86, 188–89; Jackson and, 228–29; Kahos and, 225–26; Kennedy and, 207–8, 210, 212–13; Mathare Environmental Conservation Youth Group (MECYG) and, 217–24; Mathare Number Ten Youth Group (MANYGRO) and, 95–97, 215–16; social function of, 94–97, 109–11, 125, 170, 183, 214, 265
  • Bejarano, Carolina Alonso, 28
  • Bergere, Clovis, 254
  • Bergman, Carla, 244
  • Berlant, Lauren, 322n2
  • Berman, Bruce, 60, 62, 75
  • Beyoncé, 44
  • Bhabha, Homi K., 49, 246
  • Bhan, Gautam, 37, 323n7
  • Biehl, João, 269
  • Biggie Smalls, 43
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 321–22n8
  • blaxploitation, 53
  • Bourdieu, Pierre, 16, 46
  • brega, 49
  • Brega, La (NPR podcast series), 49
  • British Institute of East Africa (BIEA), 22
  • Brundtland, Gro Harlem, 133
  • Bullard, Robert, 15
  • Buru Buru, 234–35
  • business-led development: concept and evolution of, 133–37; hustling and, 139–43; sanitation and, 131–33, 144–46. See also Community Cleaning Services (CCS)
  • Carrier, Neil, 79–80
  • cartels, 294–95
  • Casanova-Burgess, Alana, 49
  • Central Bureau of Statistics, 66
  • Césaire, Aimé, 257
  • Chatterjee, Partha, 254
  • Cheddaz, 243–45, 263–69
  • Chiuri, Wanjiku, 71–73
  • Clay, Alexa, 48, 230
  • Collins, Daryl, 185
  • Comaroff, Jean, 36–37, 89
  • Comaroff, John, 36–37, 89
  • Comic Relief, 124
  • communitas, 92–94
  • Community Clarity Service (CCS), 162
  • Community Cleaning Services (CCS): closure of, 161–63, 186; Eliza and, 118, 160–61, 176, 183, 184, 186; impact of, 157–67, 295; Mambo and, 148, 156–57, 160–61, 231–32; origins and evolution of, 21–22, 146–51, 240; public toilets and, 145–46, 147, 151–53, 157, 159; trust and, 154–57
  • community-based organizations (CBOs), 75, 92–94, 204–5
  • Constant Gardner, The (2005 film), 63
  • Constituency Development Fund (CDF), 66
  • Covid-19 pandemic, 276, 277–79
  • Cross, Jamie, 136
  • culture, 246
  • Damnés de la terre, Les (Wretched of the Earth) (Fanon), 60
  • Dandora, 86, 102, 117–18, 120–21
  • Dandora Green Recyclers, 122
  • Darby, Derrick, 43, 258–59
  • David Copperfield (Dickens), 45
  • Davies, William, 313n2
  • Demon Copperhead (Kingsolver), 45
  • dependency theory, 60
  • Díaz-Quiñones, Arcadio, 49
  • Dickens, Charles, 45
  • digital technologies: ethnographic methodology and, 247–50; Nairobi youth and, 251–54. See also social media
  • Di Nunzio, Marco, 54, 91, 206
  • “Diva” (song), 44
  • Doherty, Jacob, 100–101
  • Dolan, Catherine, 164
  • Donga, 243–45, 263–69
  • Donovan, Kevin, 284
  • Douglas, Mary, 97–98
  • drug abuse, 115–17
  • Duflo, Esther, 142
  • Duneier, Mitchell, 28, 315n9
  • ecological hustles (eco-hustles), 88, 123–26, 275. See also sanitation; waste economy
  • ecological justice, 88
  • education: Eliza and, 178–79, 182, 185, 187, 196; Jackson and, 228; Kahos and, 224–25; in Nairobi, 71, 178, 196
  • Edwards, Michael, 135
  • Eliza: as activist and peer educator, 176, 181–82, 191, 193, 205; biography and family of, 174–83; Community Cleaning Services (CCS) and, 118, 160–61, 176, 183, 184, 186; on connections, 212, 215; ethnographic portrait of, 170–74; on hustling, 273; on Mambo, 232; shags and, 193–95; social media posts as storytelling and, 249; as woman in hustle economy, 183–96, 237; on women, 293
  • Emin, Tracey, 268
  • Engels, Friedrich, 66
  • entrepreneurship: Eliza and, 188–89; hustling and, 6–7, 78–79, 81, 97, 140–43, 146–47; misfit economy and, 230–31; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and, 275; sanitation and, 131–33, 146–47 (see also Community Cleaning Services [CCS]); young people and, 89–90
  • Escobar, Arturo, 140
  • Esson, James, 57, 90–91
  • ethnographic methodology, 17–28, 130–33, 170–74, 247–50
  • Famous, Rich and in the Slums (2011 reality show), 63
  • Fanon, Frantz, 60
  • Farago, Jason, 323n5
  • Farrell, Lynsey, 213–14, 319n2
  • football, 106
  • Ford Foundation, 124, 218
  • Fouksman, Elizabeth, 287
  • Fredericks, Rosalind, 100, 259
  • Fuliza, 284–85
  • “Furukazi” (song), 285
  • garbage. See waste economy
  • Gates Foundation, 321–22n8
  • gender. See masculinity; women
  • George the Poet (George Mpanga), 255, 266, 324n11
  • getting by, 48
  • ghetto, use of term, 29
  • Ghetto Films Trust, 243–45, 263–65
  • Ghetto Foundation, 239–40
  • Ghetto Gava (2023 documentary), 294
  • Gidwani, Vinay, 142
  • gig economy, 6. See also informal economies
  • Gilroy, Paul, 49–50, 251
  • Gitau, Sammy, 129–30, 235–37, 243, 291
  • Githiora, Chege, 35–36
  • Giuliani, Rudolph, 99
  • Glissant, Édouard, 24–25, 45–46, 86, 250, 257
  • globalization, 86
  • Goff, Tao Leigh, 26
  • Grandmaster Flash, 43
  • Green Belt Movement, 125
  • Guma, Prince, 8, 82, 115
  • Günel, Gökçe, 314n6
  • habitus, 16, 89–90
  • Hake, Andrew, 11, 54
  • Hall, Stuart, 246
  • Hall, Suzi, 16
  • Hansberry, Lorraine, 40
  • Haraway, Donna, 322n9
  • Hart, Keith, 68–69, 141
  • Hart, Stuart, 134, 135, 144
  • Hartman, Saidiya, 40, 94, 314n5
  • Harvey, David, 205
  • Hasan, Hakim, 28
  • hip-hop: Covid-19 pandemic and, 277; hustling and, 43–45; as storytelling, 243–46, 250, 254–64, 267–68, 269–71; street knowledge and, 85–86; Timbas (Timberland shoes) and, 50; women and, 259–62
  • history, 247
  • hooks, bell, 94
  • housing: forms of, 61–67; mabati structures and, 19, 63–67, 70–71, 73, 129–30; tenements and, 63–67, 70–71, 73, 201–3. See also land tenure
  • Huchzermeyer, Maria, 63, 69, 201, 318n7
  • Huruma: arrests for illegal dumping in, 118–19; Eliza and, 174, 177, 185–92; Kibichoi baze in, 96; “leavers and stayers” in, 199–200, 202–3; urban poverty and housing in, 65–66
  • Hustle (dance style), 42–43
  • “Hustle, The” (song), 42–43
  • Hustler, The (1961 film), 42–43
  • Hustler, The (Tevis), 42–43
  • Hustler Fund, 283–85
  • hustling: business-led development and, 139–43 (see also Community Cleaning Services [CCS]); as “cartels,” 294–95; cognates of, 46–49; concept and meanings of, 1–7, 13–17, 273–77; Covid-19 pandemic and, 276, 277–79; creolized forms and practices of, 49–51; definitions and etymology of, 38–39; ecological justice and, 88 (see also ecological hustles [eco-hustles]); entrepreneurship and, 78–79, 81, 97, 140–43, 146–47; ethnographic methodology and, 17–28, 130–33, 170–74, 247–50; “everything can be fixed in the ghetto” attitude and, 291–92; gendered dynamics of, 169–71, 220, 222 (see also Eliza); impact of, 293–96; infrastructural breakdown and, 199, 201–3; intergenerational tension in, 226–28; Kahos’s perspective on, 301–5; learning with, 35–38; “leavers” and, 206–7, 224–30, 235–40, 245; “letting go” and, 56–57; loan schemes and, 283–85; misfit economy and, 48, 230–32; Museum Hill and, 288–91; normalization of, 285–88; performative dimension of (see storytelling); populism and, 280–83; recentering of, 296–99; representations of, 41–46; scholarship on, 51–55; sex work and, 189–90, 199; Sheng and, 13–14, 35–36, 273; “stayers” and, 206–24, 237–40, 245; transitions and, 199–201; in U.S. cities under Jim Crow, 39–41
  • illegal cities, 48
  • incompleteness, 8, 81–82, 91, 115, 133, 164–65, 203, 274
  • industrial cities, 66
  • informal economies: concept and history of, 6, 46, 55, 68–71, 80–81; jua kali sector and, 70–71, 80–81, 102, 281; kadogo (small) economy and, 73–75; young people and, 90–92. See also hustling
  • International Labour Organization (ILO), 69, 80, 285–86
  • Jackson, 109–10, 228–30
  • Jackson, Steven, 101
  • Jacobs, Jane, 216
  • Jay-Z, 43–44
  • Jeffrey, Craig, 322n2, 324n3
  • Jim Crow regime, 39–41
  • Johnstone-Louis, Mary, 164
  • Jones, Jeremy, 48
  • Joseph, Peniel, 40
  • jua kali sector, 70–71, 80–81, 102, 281
  • jugaad, 48
  • kadogo (small) economy, 73–75
  • Kahora, Billy, 317–18n4
  • Kahos. See Murimi, Edward Kahuthia
  • Kahura, Dauti, 280
  • Kaka, 211, 217–24, 237, 249, 292
  • Kanana, Fridah Erastus, 282
  • Kanogo, Tabitha, 61
  • Kariuki, Annah, 282
  • Karnani, Anil, 164
  • Karpouzoglou, Timos, 132–33
  • Kasarani Youth Congress, 107
  • Katumanga, Musambayi, 77
  • Katz, Cindy, 246
  • Kazi kwa Vijana (KKV, Work for Youth), 106–8, 210, 281
  • Kebeya, Hildah, 282
  • Kelley, Blair, 40, 41
  • Kennedy: baze (base) and, 207–8, 210, 212–13; Community Cleaning Services (CCS) and, 162–63; on drug and alcool abuse, 116; Eliza and, 191; on hustling, 273; infrastructural breakdown and, 201–2; as “stayer,” 199, 207–13, 237; storytelling and, 249; waste economy and, 207–13
  • Kenya African National Union (KANU), 71
  • Kenya Commercial Bank Limited (KBC), 284
  • Kenyatta, Jomo, 63–64, 70, 280–81
  • Kenyatta, Uhuru Muigai, 281, 317n1
  • Kibaki, Mwai, 9, 64, 281
  • Kibichoi Youth Group, 207, 212–13
  • Kikuyu people, 61–63, 69, 76–78, 81, 322n1
  • Kimani, Susan, 208–9
  • Kimari, Wangui, 4, 77, 88, 239–40
  • Kinder, Kimberley, 15, 100
  • King, Kenneth, 68, 81
  • Kingsolver, Barbara, 45, 116
  • Kinyanjui, Mary, 10, 73–74, 169–70, 238, 314n4
  • Kissmart, 243–45, 263–69
  • Klinenberg, Eric, 315n12
  • Korogocho (Koch), 234–35
  • Kosovo, 235–36, 243–45, 264–69
  • kukiya-kiya economy, 48
  • kuzurura (just roaming around), 110–11
  • Kwani? (Kahora), 317–18n4
  • land tenure, 59–60, 61–63, 69–73, 203–7. See also housing; shags (country)
  • Latour, Bruno, 5
  • Lawhon, Mary, 36–37, 132–33, 325n5
  • Lefebvre, Henri, 82, 205
  • Lewis, John, 5
  • Lewis, Jovan Scott, 94
  • liminality: “leavers and stayers” and, 237–38; women and, 171, 175; young people and, 90–94, 200–201, 213–14
  • Lionnet, Françoise, 38
  • loan schemes, 283–85
  • Locke, Peter, 269
  • Lockwood, Peter, 325n7
  • Lonsdale, John, 61–62, 78
  • Luo people, 174, 183
  • Maandamano, 298
  • Maathai, Wangari, 125
  • mabati housing, 19, 63–67, 70–71, 73, 129–30
  • Macharia, Margaret, 69
  • Mains, Daniel, 90
  • Majority World, use of term, 29
  • Makau, Jack, 298
  • Malcolm X, 39, 40, 41
  • Malone, Clare, 323n4
  • Mambo, 148, 156–57, 160–61, 217, 230–34
  • Map Kibera, 240, 321n6
  • March, Kathryn, 247
  • masculinity: hip-hop and, 257; hustling and, 41–42, 44, 173
  • Mashanti, 243–44
  • Massey, Doreen, 246
  • matatus (minibus taxis): Buru Buru and, 234; Covid-19 pandemic and, 277; graffiti art on, 85–86; hustling and, 2, 286; routes and regulation of, 17–18; storytelling and, 253–54
  • Mathare Community Resource Centre, 235–36
  • Mathare Environmental Conservation Youth Group (MECYG), 105–6, 112, 124, 217–24, 228
  • Mathare Number 10 (Mathare 10), 113. See also Community Cleaning Services (CCS)
  • Mathare Number Ten Youth Group (MANYGRO): baze (base) and, 95–97, 215–16; Community Cleaning Services (CCS) and, 149, 151–53; impact of, 295–96; public toilets and, 95, 114, 162; as “stayers,” 213–17; waste economy and, 109, 113–15
  • Mathare Social Justice Centre, 239–40, 319n1
  • Mathare Valley: ethnographic fieldwork in, 17–28, 130–33, 170–74, 247–50; self-help spirit of, 11, 71–73, 100, 123–25; urban poverty and housing in, 11–12, 63–67 (see also mabati housing; tenement housing)
  • Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA), 106, 226
  • Mathari Mental Hospital, 243
  • Mau Mau rebellion (1952–60), 61, 62, 77
  • Mawdsley, Emma, 131
  • Mbembe, Achille, 189–90
  • McCoy, Van, 42–43
  • McCreary, Tyler, 325n5
  • McFarlane, Colin, 314n7
  • McMillan Cottom, Tressie, 51, 52–53
  • McMullin, Jaremey, 210
  • Midnight Marauders (A Tribe Called Quest), 50
  • Millar, Kathleen, 46–47, 54, 100, 108–9, 314n8
  • Millennial Development Goals, 134
  • Millington, Nate, 133
  • Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, 319n3
  • Minority World, use of term, 29
  • misfit economy, 48, 230–32
  • Mitiambo, Peter Maangi, 318n6
  • Mlango Kubwa, 109–10, 112, 211, 217–24, 226–30, 249, 301–5. See also Mathare Environmental Conservation Youth Group (MECYG)
  • Modi, Narendra, 280
  • Moi, Daniel arap, 63–64, 70, 80–81, 102, 281
  • mondialité (worlding), 86
  • Monteith, Will, 3, 47
  • Montgomery, Nick, 244
  • Moore, Sarah, 100
  • Moser, Caroline, 141–42
  • Mosse, David, 130–31
  • Mpanga, George (George the Poet), 255, 266, 324n11
  • M-Pesa, 95–96, 114, 214–15, 284, 285
  • Mr. Green Africa, 122–23
  • M-Shwari, 284
  • mtaa (hood): Eliza and, 185–92, 196; as horizontal and vertical settlement, 65–66; lifestyles and habitus of, 13–17, 76–78, 89–92; performative dimension of (see storytelling). See also baze (base)
  • Mũ koma wa Ngũgĩ, 257–58
  • Mungiki, 76–78
  • Murimi, Edward Kahuthia, 28, 224–28, 230, 237–38, 240, 301–5
  • Museum Hill, 288–91
  • music: as storytelling, 243–46, 249, 250, 253–64, 267–68, 269–71. See also hip-hop
  • Muungano wa wanavijiji (United Slum Dwellers), 204
  • Mwaura, Grace, 194, 196
  • My Bed (Emin), 268
  • Mzee Kijana (Shei), 116–17, 153–54, 160, 162–63, 273
  • Nagar, Richa, 28
  • Nagle, Robin, 314n8
  • Nai Nami, 244, 265–67, 269–71
  • Nairobeez, 244, 265, 267–68
  • Nairobi: contradictions of modernity in, 9–10, 79–82; historical development of, 7–10, 59–63; informalization in, 68–71; kadogo (small) economy in, 73–75; migration into, 76; urban poverty and housing in, 9–10, 63–67 (see also mabati housing; tenement housing); waste management in, 65–66, 99–102 (see also waste economy); young people in, 89–97. See also Mathare Valley
  • Nairobi City Council (later Nairobi City County): housing and, 66, 67; informal economies and, 78; Mathare residents and, 72; waste economy and, 114, 117–18, 120–21
  • Nairobi City Water Company (NCWC), 232–33
  • Nairobi National Museum of Kenya, 288
  • Nakyagaba, Gloria Nsangi, 132–33
  • National Youth Service (NYS), 106, 281
  • Native Pass Law (1920), 69
  • NCBA, 284
  • Ndaka, Felix Mutunga, 256, 266
  • Ndii, David, 280
  • Nemer, David, 262–63
  • neoliberal capitalism, 9, 51–52, 55, 56, 163–64
  • Neurwirth, Robert, 314n5
  • Newell, Sasha, 90, 249–50
  • Newman, Paul, 42–43
  • New York Times (newspaper), 42
  • Ngau, Peter, 102
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 36, 257–58
  • Njenga, Joseph, 162
  • Nkako, Joel, 137
  • Noah, Trevor, 316n8
  • nongovernmental organizations (NGOs): Community Cleaning Services (CCS) and, 147, 165; Eliza and, 176, 191, 193; entrepreneurship and, 275; “leavers and stayers” and, 213–14, 217, 220–24, 239–40; peace-building activities and, 124; waste economy and, 120
  • Nwonka, Clive Chijioke, 270
  • Nyabola, Nanjala, 254
  • Nyamnjoh, Francis, 8, 133
  • Nyawira, Rosie, 22, 103–4, 204, 234–35, 277, 291–92
  • Obonyo, Raphael, 124
  • observing participation, 130–33
  • Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 53
  • Ochieng’, W. R., 68
  • Ochonu, Moses, 6, 7, 28
  • Ogola, George, 254
  • “Oh My God” (song), 50
  • Okal, Jerry, 298
  • opacity, 24–25, 45–46, 250
  • Page, Ben, 193–94
  • Pamoja Trust (PT), 105, 113, 203–4, 213, 218
  • Parasuraman, S., 135, 166–67
  • Park, Emma, 284
  • participant observation, 132
  • Parton, Dolly, 278
  • patchwork ethnography, 314n6
  • Pause N Play X Wagala, 259–62
  • Perry, Imani, 43
  • Peterson, Anne Helen, 325n4
  • Pettit, Harry, 322n2, 324n3
  • philanthrocapitalism, 135
  • Phillips, Kyra Maya, 48, 230
  • pirate modernity, 48
  • Polanyi, Karl, 274, 313n2
  • political language, 78–79
  • Polsky, Ned, 315–16n3
  • popular neighborhoods, use of term, 29
  • populism, 280–83
  • Prabhu, Jaideep, 136
  • Prahalad, C. K., 134, 144
  • precarity, 6, 46–47, 51, 286
  • Premier Bank Kenya, 282
  • protracted liminality, 90, 93, 175
  • public toilets: Community Cleaning Services (CCS) and, 145–46, 147, 151–53, 157, 159, 161–63; Mathare Number Ten Youth Group (MANYGRO) and, 95, 114, 162; significance of, 65–66, 129–30, 138–39
  • Pype, Katrien, 269–70
  • racial capitalism, 39, 51–53, 55, 99
  • Radjou, Navi, 136
  • Rai, Amit S., 48
  • Rajan, Kaushik Sunder, 26–27
  • relational autonomy, 108–11
  • Richardson, Chris, 16
  • rights to the city, 205–7
  • rites of passage, 92–93
  • Robinson, Cedric, 315n2
  • Rollefson, Griffith, 44
  • Rosie. See Nyawira, Rosie
  • Roughing It (Twain), 39
  • Ruto, William, 2, 271, 280–83, 298–99, 317n1
  • Safaricom, 284
  • Safire, William, 42
  • Said, Edward, 38, 246
  • Salim, 293
  • Salt-N-Pepa, 262
  • Sammy. See Gitau, Sammy
  • Sanergy, 188, 191
  • sanitation: as basic need, public good, human right, and business opportunity, 137–39; business-led development and, 131–33; ethnographic methodology and, 130–33, 135; horizontal vs. vertical settlements and, 65–66; toilet as public good and, 129–30. See also Community Cleaning Services (CCS); public toilets
  • Sarr, Felwine, 10, 50–51
  • Schmidt, Mario, 251
  • SC Johnson (SCJ), 144–46. See also Community Cleaning Services (CCS)
  • self-help, 11, 71–73, 100, 123–25
  • selfies, 192, 263–65, 267–68, 275
  • sex work, 189–90, 199
  • shags (countryside): Eliza and, 183, 193–95; Jackson and, 229–30; significance of, 201; “stayers” and, 206
  • Shani, Tetu, 285
  • Sharpe, Christina, 276, 314n7
  • Shei (Mzee Kijana), 116–17, 153–54, 160, 162–63, 273
  • Shelby, Tommie, 43, 258–59
  • Sheng (Kenyan Swahili vernacular): Eliza and, 192; hip-hop and, 254, 258, 260; hustling and, 13–14, 35–36, 273
  • Shih, Shu-mei, 38
  • Simanis, Erik, 135, 140–41
  • Simone, AbdouMaliq, 54, 55, 205, 210–11, 274–75
  • Singh, Juliette, 27
  • single motherhood, 71, 175–76, 179–82, 195–96
  • Skott-Myhre, Hans, 16
  • Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI), 105, 204, 218
  • slum tourism, 63
  • social entrepreneurship, 125–26
  • social media: Covid-19 pandemic and, 277; Eliza and, 176, 191–92; Nairobi youth and, 251–54; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and, 214; selfies and, 192, 263–65, 267–68, 275; as storytelling, 244–46, 247–50, 260–62
  • Solomon, Marisa, 98–99
  • Sommers, Marc, 90
  • Sontag, Susan, 263
  • southern urban critique and practices, 36–38
  • Spence, Lester, 51
  • Standing, Guy, 47
  • Stanford, Jim, 6
  • Stewart, Kathleen, 276, 314n7
  • Stokes, Kathleen, 133
  • storytelling: hustling and, 240, 243–46, 253–54, 269–71; Kahos’s perspective on, 303–4; music as, 243–46, 249, 250, 253–64, 267–68, 269–71; selfies as, 263–65, 267–68; social media posts as, 244–46, 247–50, 260–62; street tours as, 244, 246, 249, 265–67, 269–71
  • Story Yetu (Our Story) (2010 film), 243–45, 263–65, 295
  • “Straight Outta Compton” (1988 song), 85–86
  • Straight Outta Compton (2015 film), 85–86
  • straining, 48
  • street children, 112
  • street tours, 244, 246, 249, 265–67, 269–71
  • Sundaram, Ravi, 48
  • sustainable development, 133–34, 144, 163
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 134, 214
  • System D (système de débrouillardise), 48–49
  • Taggart, Jack, 131
  • taka ni pato (trash is cash), 104–6. See also waste economy
  • Taylor, Astra, 4
  • tenement housing, 63–67, 70–71, 73, 201–3
  • Tevis, Walter, 42
  • Thieme, Sebastien, 243–44, 263–64
  • Timbas (Timberland shoes), 50
  • Top Boy (TV series), 251
  • Transport Licensing Board, 17
  • trash. See waste economy
  • Tribe Called Quest, A, 50
  • Truelove, Yaffa, 36–37
  • Trump, Donald, 280
  • trust, 20, 73–74, 154–57, 208, 212, 302–3
  • Turner, Victor, 92–94
  • Twain, Mark, 39
  • Uber, 45
  • Uduny, Kevo, 162, 295
  • UN-Habitat, 222–24
  • United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 71–73
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 122
  • universal basic income (UBI), 279
  • Valentine, Bettylou, 40–41, 299
  • Van Stapele, Naomi, 77, 239–40
  • Varley, Ann, 318n7
  • Varma, Saiba, 314n6
  • Vicol, Dora-Olivia, 3, 47
  • Vigh, Henrik, 90
  • Wacquant, Loïc, 44
  • Wanjiru, Margaret, 66, 105–6, 130, 166, 209
  • Ward, Barbara, 11
  • Warzel, Charlie, 325n4
  • waste and waste management, 65–66, 97–102
  • waste economy: arrests for illegal dumping and, 117–20; auto-gestion (self-management) and, 82; Eliza and, 176, 180–81, 184, 199; green and circular economy and, 120–23; Jackson and, 229; kadogo (small) economy and, 74–75; Kahos’s perspective on, 303–4; Kennedy and, 207–13; liminality and communitas in, 93–94; Mathare Number Ten Youth Group (MANYGRO) and, 213–17; origins and evolution of, 12–13, 14–15, 102–6; relational autonomy and, 108–11; social function of, 111–17; values and effects of, 123–25; young people and, 85–88
  • Watanabe, Chika, 314n6
  • Watkins, Craig, 53
  • Weiss, Brad, 90, 251
  • West, Cornel, 258–59
  • wheelbarrownomics, 280
  • White, Joy, 259
  • White, Luise, 54
  • Willems, Wendy, 253
  • Williams, Philippa, 3, 47
  • Wilson, William Julius, 316–17n10
  • women: hip-hop and, 259–62; hustling and, 169–71, 220, 222 (see also Eliza); single motherhood and, 175–76, 179–82, 195–96; solidarity networks and, 292–93
  • World Environment Day, 213–15
  • World Health Organization (WHO), 137
  • Wretched of the Earth (Les Damnés de la terre) (Fanon), 60
  • Wrong, Michela, 66–67
  • youth employment schemes, 106–8. See also Kazi kwa Vijana (KKV, Work for Youth)
  • Zabbaleen, 102–3
  • Zollman, Julie, 285

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Portions of chapter 3 are adapted from “The ‘Hustle’ amongst Youth Entrepreneurs in Mathare’s Informal Waste Economy,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 7, no. 3 (2013): 389–412, http://wwww.tandfonline.com/. Portions of chapter 4 are adapted from “Turning Hustlers into Entrepreneurs, and Social Needs into Market Demands: Corporate–Community Encounters in Nairobi, Kenya,” Geoforum 59 (2015): 228–39. Portions of chapter 5 are adapted from “‘The Ghetto Will Always Be My Living Room’: Hustling and Belonging in Nairobi Slums,” in Rethinking Life at the Margins: The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics, ed. Michele Lancione (Routledge, 2016). Portions of chapter 6 are adapted from “‘Youth Are Redrawing the Map’: Temporalities and Terrains of the Hustle Economy in Mathare, Nairobi,” special issue of Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute 91, no. 1 (2021): 35–56.

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