Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Is it ethical to visit Kibera slum in the frame of residents-organized guided tour? Aleksandra Gutowska Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Warsaw Uniwersity

The experience of visiting Kibera corresponds to the paradigm of The New Moral Tourism. It is the attitude in which the interpersonal relations between visitors and the inhabitants of the visited place are both a part of and a solution to the problem of inequalities between them, in geographical and social sense (Butcher, 2003: 92). For people who are travelling it is important to „make a difference” and „support communities”.

romanticization of poverty; appreciation of one’s own situation; making a difference; „That this is the way… how to say… a good knowledge of Kenya. In my opinion it is better to come here than going to the beach in Malindi, to do safari and things like that”

website: www.imagesofkibera.com The project is funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. Agreement no: UMO-2015/19/N/HS3/00496