Kenyan estates where Congolese ply their trade

Kitengela town

An aerial view of Kitengela town, Kajiado County.

Photo credit: Stanley Ngotho | Nation

In Kitengela, a cosmopolitan township in Kajiado County, south of Kenya's capital Nairobi, Congolese have set up 14 churches where they hold colourful services, even in their local language, Kinyarwanda – or Kinyamulenge.

The Congolese community is so close-knit that the locals call the area where they live in the dusty suburbs 'Little Kinshasa'. It doesn't matter that most Kinyarwanda speakers live in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of kilometres from Kinshasa.