Shalom City
Reimagining Africa
Tuesday, May 04 2010
by Frank Stasio
africarising.org
Most of the reporting out of Africa is grim. It centers on corruption, disease and ethnic violence. But many more hopeful and dramatic stories have gone untold. One of those stories is about Shalom City. Shalom City was created by a group of refugees who pooled their money to buy land and make new homes in the aftermath of Kenya’s 2007 post-election violence. On assignment in Kenya, Host Frank Stasio visited Shalom City and spoke with its founder Peter Kariuku, his wife Judy, and Mary Muhara, East African liaison for Africa Rising, a nonprofit group with North Carolina ties that supports Shalom City. He discovered that the new farm cooperative has become a model of political and economic stability.
