Kangemi is a peri-urban area in Kenya located in Westlands Sub-county in Nairobi County, on the outskirts of the city.
It is bordered on the north by the middle-class neighbourhoods of Loresho and Kibagare and Westlands on the west.
While it is a multi-ethnic slum, the largest group of residents consists of the Luhya tribe, who are majorly tenants attracted to Kangemi's low-cost rental houses and accessibility to employment opportunites mostly labor based[3] However, the indigenous community is the Kikuyu tribe that owns the land and rental houses that other tribes live in.
The Kikuyu have lived in Kangemi having moved from Dagoretti, Muranga and other areas in pre-colonial and colonial times and have established clans and family there.
[5] About 20,000 persons belong to a Catholic parish based in Kangemi.