In Sugar Hill, a slum on the edge of one of Monrovia's bustling markets, a group of jobless young men sat lounging on crumbling brick walls.
Caraballo, who is 32, lives in the El Encanto section of La Vega, a slum on the side of one of the steep mountains around Caracas.
"I'll wait another minute but then I have to go back to work," said Ifeoma Okfor, a seamstress who had been queuing for three hours one day in her slum on the edge of Lagos, the commercial capital on the southern coast.
A hint as to what that might consist of has come from the discovery of people who seem to be immune to the attentions of HIV in the first place.Pumwani, a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, is one of the most AIDS-ridden places in the world.
One morning, he took me to see one of his projects, in Wharf Jérémie, a crime-ridden slum on the bay in Port-au-Prince.
Slum on, say I. It's Butterflies for yet another generation, and as delightful.
The architect Kunle Adeyimi designed a groundbreaking floating school that serves Makoko, the slum on the water.
Lach has returned to the slum on several occasions — an unusual act, he recognizes, in Polish culture.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo Portobello Books, pbk £9.99 Annawadi is a slum on the edge of Mumbai airport.
The Madanpur Khadr colony is a tenement slum on the southern outskirts of Delhi, the Indian capital.
I was appalled by the stench, filth and dense humanity of the slum on my first day.
