Caroline Kihato

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato was born and grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa. As a first generation urbanite in a context where coming from a city was something to be pitied not celebrated, she developed a fascination for all things urban. She is currently a Visiting Researcher at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In 2011, she received a MacArthur grant on Migration and Development and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University, Washington DC. Her career has involved both teaching and conducting research in the academy and the non-profit sector in South Africa. She is currently working on a non-fiction book of life in Washington DC, Johannesburg, Venice and Nairobi.