Sentence examples for a slum of from inspiring English sources

Diana Mason, a Liberian living in a slum of Abidjan, describes how the gendarmes came to "clean" the place up.

He has a strong base of support in Sadr City, a slum of two million people in northeastern Baghdad.

Not far from the Karen Club is Kibera, a slum of 600,000 people in an area only a little larger than an 18-hole course.

The colourful shops and restaurants of Grant Avenue mask a slum of crowded tenements and sweatshops that has the highest population density in an already densely populated city.

Its waters, dirty and hidden, were trapped beneath a roaring highway; its surroundings were a slum of sweatshops, metal bashing and poverty.

Having no place to live in, he began sleeping outside people's houses in Janata Colony, a slum of around 70,000 people in Mankhurd.

Mariama Sanda, 14, lives in a slum on the outskirts of Niamey, Niger.

Brooks was born in Denham Town, a slum to the west of the Jamican capital, Kingston.

Using money lent her by Ruskin, she established (1864) the first of her housing projects in a slum area of St. Marylebone borough, London.

Its communications with the rest of the country pass through El Alto, a slum city of 600,000 and the protesters' stronghold.

For years a slum appendage of La Paz, it became an independent city in 1988.