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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.

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 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.