INFORMATION
Silent Lives
For a large number of Kenyan’s, employment as a domestic servant by White, Indians or black expatriates and Kenya residents underlines the seismic disparities of a country in which over 50% of the population survives on less then 1 dollar a day while others reside in stately homes and colonial estates.
Whether it be the leafy suburbs of Nairobi or the vast game ranches of the white highlands, domestic staff bear intimate witness to a world so far removed from their own as to be incomprehensible. To many of their employers they remain peripheral accessories to a lifestyle which in many ways demands an intimate complicity of their employees as they guard their gates, trim their hedges and ultimately ensure that any alternative reality be kept far at bay…