Kware is a

slum A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily in ...

neighbourhood in

Embakasi Embakasi is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately , southeast of the central business district. Embakasi is considered part of Nairobi's Eastlands area, lying to the south-east of Nairobi County. The Embakasi proper cover ...

in the city of

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city prope ...

. Located within the larger Eastlands area of Nairobi, it is approximately east of the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the " cit ...

. It borders the

Mukuru slums Mukuru is a collection of slums in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately south of the central business district of Nairobi. It is one of the largest slums in Nairobi. It stretches along the Nairobi–Ngong River, situated on waste lands in t ...

and Initially Kware was predominantly an

informal settlement Informal housing or informal settlement can include any form of housing, shelter, or settlement (or lack thereof) which is illegal, falls outside of government control or regulation, or is not afforded protection by the state. As such, the info ...

but over the years part Kware and

Pipeline Pipeline may refer to: Electronics, computers and computing * Pipeline (computing), a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on ** Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a s ...

have earned a reputation for their poor infrastructure, coupled with overcrowded flats, narrow streets, littering, as well as its poor drainage system.

Overview

Kware is located approximately southeast of Nairobi's

, west of the Outer Ring Road within the Eastlands area in

. Kware, a mispronounced version of 'quarry', got its name from a nearby quarry site. It borders the Mukuru and

slums. Electorally, Kware is placed under Embakasi South Constituency; the whole constituency is within the Embakasi Sub-county. Kware is also an electoral ward within the constituency. As of 2019, Kware together with Pipeline have a population of 166,517, with 87,056 of them being male and 79,439 being female. The neighbourhood has a population density of 106,445/km² in a land area of 1.6km², the highest after

Huruma Huruma is a low-income residential estate located in the northeast of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It borders Kariobangi and Dandora to the east, Moi Air Base to the south, Mathare to the north to west and Eastleigh to the southwest. In April 20 ...

References

{{Nairobi, state=collapsed Populated places in Nairobi Province Suburbs of Nairobi