【全非资讯·肯尼亚】 肯尼亚：当污水淹没你的家，也淹没你的心灵

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在肯尼亚的一些非正式定居点，每年多次摧毁房屋的洪水并不总是源于湍急的河流和猛烈的风暴，还源于失效的排水系统。Sean Christie实地探访并了解了长期忍受污水从前门涌入的生活对心理造成的创伤，以及为什么同样的模式正在开普敦和贝拉等地重演。\n\n如果你来到位于内罗毕南缘的穆库鲁夸鲁本（简称穆库鲁），你最需要的向导是弗朗西斯·穆基里·穆托尼（Francis Mukiri Muthoni），人称“未来”（Future）。正如他经常标榜的那样，他致力于为自己的社区实现更美好的未来。\n\n我们在穆库鲁上部（简称为“高地”）的助理酋长办公室与他会面。尽管2013年的权力下放将权力和权限从中央政府移交给了47个新成立的郡政府，但像穆库鲁这样的非正式定居点仍然由中央政府任命的酋长和助理酋长管辖，他们依靠像穆托尼这样的“长老”在定居点内的“村庄”之间传递信息。\n\n通过WhatsApp或LinkedIn关注我们，获取最新头条新闻\n\n“（近年来）取得了一些进展，”穆托尼一边说，一边走在一条在新冠疫情封锁期间首次铺设水泥的街道上。这条街道也加宽了，并挖了排水沟。如今，有些房屋配备了内置厕所，连接到所谓的“简易下水道系统”，其中的管道足够弯曲，可以绕过穆库鲁错综复杂的房屋拐角。\n\n然而，当我们顺着山坡向下走时，很明显，这些改变对于大多数人来说远远不够。\n\n在这里的“低地”，比如蒙巴萨村（因地势低洼而得名），污水的恶臭甚至压倒了煮罗非鱼（当地人称作ngege）的香味。这条未铺装的道路上纵横交错着人类排泄物的细流，在道路的尽头，房屋已被污水包围，只能通过石头和托盘木搭成的临时通道进入。\n\n穆托尼解释说，“穆库鲁”一词意为山谷，源于所有吉库尤人发源地的名字——穆库尔韦瓦尼亚加坦加（Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga）。那是一片无花果树林，神话中的始祖吉库尤就是在那里遇到了他的新娘姆姆比（Mumbi）。

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In some of Kenya's informal settlements, the floods that wreck homes several times a year aren't always about raging rivers and violent storms. It's also about drains that don't work. Sean Christie travelled to find out what a lifetime of sewage through the front door does to the mind — and why the same pattern is playing out in places like Cape Town and Beira.

If you visit Mukuru kwa Reuben (Mukuru for short) on the southern edge of Nairobi, the guide you want is Francis Mukiri Muthoni, aka "Future", a man dedicated to realising a better future for his community, as he is quick to claim.

We meet at the assistant chief's office in the upper part of Mukuru, known pithily as the "highlands". Although  devolution in 2013  transferred power and authority from the central government to 47 newly created county governments, informal settlements like Mukuru remain under the authority of a central government appointed chief and assistant chief, who rely on "elders" like Muthoni to carry information to and from "villages" within the settlement.

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"There has been some progress [in recent years]," says Muthoni, navigating down a street paved for the first time during COVID-19 lockdowns. The street was widened, too, and drainage channels were dug in. Today, some of the houses incorporate built toilets, connected to a so-called "simplified sewer system", comprising pipes that are bendy enough to go around corners in Mukuru's jumbled mass of housing.

As we head downhill, however, it becomes clear that some change isn't nearly enough for most.

Here in the "lowlands", in villages like Mombasa (because low-lying), the stench of sewage overpowers even the smell of boiling tilapia, known as ngege . The road — this one unpaved — is criss-crossed with rivulets of human waste, and towards the bottom of the road the houses have become enisled by foul water, accessible only on makeshift walkways of rocks and pallet wood.

Muthoni explains that the word "Mukuru" means valley, and is derived from the name of the birthplace of all Agikuyu people — Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga — a glade of fig trees where Gikuyu, the mythological patriarch, is supposed to have met his bride Mumbi.

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