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Kibera Olympic { 12 images } Created 31 Oct 2017

Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
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  • NAIROBI, KENYA - MARCH 18, 2010: In a community gym, young athletes prepare for their turn to compete in a bout featuring the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, Kenya Prisons and the Kenya Police and Armed Forces (AFABA). Without a sponsor, equipment and supplies for the Kibera Olympic Boxing Team are in short supply. What little equipment they own is passed between teammates before each bout. Each year, Kibera Olympic boxers aspire individually to make the national team, and the opportunity to compete in the annual Kenya Open boxing tournament. In previous years, boxers from Kibera slum have gone on to win tournaments on both the national and international stage.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
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  • NAIROBI, KENYA - AUGUST 16, 2011: Kamau "Kelly" Ng'ang'a walks home through the winding dirt paths of Kibera slum.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    110816_Kelly_©BobMiller_337.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - MARCH 18, 2010: In Jericho, a district on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenyans assemble to watch a boxing match featuring members of the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    100318_Kibera-Olympic_003_09.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - MARCH 18, 2010: Athletes spar during a boxing tournament featuring the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, Kenya Prisons and the Kenya Police and Armed Forces (AFABA). Each year, Kibera Olympic boxers aspire individually to make the national team, and the opportunity to compete in the annual Kenya Open boxing tournament. In previous years, boxers from Kibera slum have gone on to win tournaments on both the national and international stage.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    100318_Kibera-Olympic_008_09.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - AUGUST 15, 2011: Kamau "Kelly" Nganga trains with handmade cement weights in Kibera slum. <br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    110815_Kibera_Olympic_004.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - MARCH 18, 2010: Young athletes prepare for their turn to compete in a bout featuring the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, Kenya Prisons and the Kenya Police and Armed Forces (AFABA). Each year, Kibera Olympic boxers aspire individually to make the national team, and the opportunity to compete in the annual Kenya Open boxing tournament. In previous years, boxers from Kibera slum have gone on to win tournaments on both the national and international stage.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    100318_Kibera-Olympic_004_21-2.jpg
  • MERU, KENYA - AUGUST 22, 2011: Kamau "Kelly" Ng'ang'a, 22, trains with handmade cement weights in the yard of his childhood home while niece Njeri, 4, and nephew Edwin, 8, practice somersaults. Ng'ang'a built his home training facility by hand in 2010, allowing him to continue training as a boxer while visiting family in Kenya's rural Eastern Province. "I'm young, but with boxing I'm going to succeed in life," Ng'ang'a said. "I need to struggle now when I'm strong so that later on, I'll have time to relax and have a family."<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    110822_Meru_©BobMiller_060.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - AUGUST 16, 2011: Kamau "Kelly" Ng'ang'a changes clothes in his one room apartment after excercising. Unable to find regular work in the slum, Ng'ang'a moved into this room in January of 2011 after a friend volunteered the space to him free of rent.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    110816_Kelly_©BobMiller_169.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - MARCH 22, 2010: Young athletes of the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club train outside the Joseph Kengethe Social Hall on the outskirts of Kibera slum. Each year, Kibera Olympic boxers aspire individually to make the national team, and the opportunity to compete in the annual Kenya Open boxing tournament. In previous years, boxers from Kibera slum have gone on to win tournaments on both the national and international stage.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    100322_Kibera-Olympic_003_15.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - MARCH 18, 2010: In Jericho, a district on the outskirts of Nairobi, athletes with the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club await the announcement of their opponents as the ring is assembled.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    100318_Kibera-Olympic_002_16.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - MARCH 18, 2010: In Jericho, a district on the outskirts of Nairobi, athletes with the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club await the announcement of their opponents as the ring is assembled.<br />
<br />
Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    100318_Kibera-Olympic_001_14.jpg
  • NAIROBI, KENYA - MARCH 18, 2010: A young athlete rests at the end of his bout during a boxing tournament featuring the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, Kenya Prisons and the Kenya Police and Armed Forces (AFABA). Each year, Kibera Olympic boxers aspire individually to make the national team, and the opportunity to compete in the annual Kenya Open boxing tournament. In previous years, boxers from Kibera slum have gone on to win tournaments on both the national and international stage.<br />
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Within Kenya's progressive youth culture is the Kibera Olympic Boxing Club, a group of low-income adolescents from the slum whose leader uses boxing as a way to engage with idle youth. The group's ethnic diversity is remarkable given Kenya's 2008 post-election violence in which people from several tribes were forced violently out of slums. Together, these boxers represent a nascent trend of cross-tribe brotherhood in a healing nation.
    100318_Kibera-Olympic_006_07.jpg