Ghetto Radio

Ghetto Radio consists of the flagship 89.5FM Ghetto Radio station in Nairobi, and the websites Ghettoradio.co.ke and Thisisafrica.me.
Ghetto Radio was set up to reveal the fuller picture of urban African ghetto life and culture by being a channel through which ghetto inhabitants, artists as well as regular inhabitants of slums and ghettos, can tell their own stories (through music, graffiti, blogs, comments, news items, stories, poetry, etc.).

Ghetto Radio 89.5FM offers 'street credible' news, views and entertainment by people from the urban ghetto, to an audience within and beyond the ghettos.
Future Ghetto Radio stations will offer the same to and from their respective cities.Ghetto Radio Foundation assists with the setting up of FM radio stations in Africa’s urban slums, with the aim of providing radio broadcasting training to motivated and talented youngsters, thus enabling them fill all the roles at 'their' station and broadcast to the entire city the music and news that resonates with ghetto inhabitants.

The flagship station in Nairobi has been on air since December 2007, and, according to independent media research by Consumer Eye, is already the most popular radio station among the 15 – 25-year old audience in Nairobi.
More Ghetto Radio FM stations are in the pipelines for other cities in Africa.