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Andris Birkmanis Posted: Thu, Jan 3 2013 1:03 AM

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas/21568592-day-economic-life-africas-biggest-shanty-town-boomtown-slum

A not-too-bad story about a town without government (or so the author claims).

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cab21 replied on Thu, Jan 3 2013 1:35 AM

http://www.kibera.org.uk/Facts.html

it says the government owns the land, so if that is correct there is a government there.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/06/kenyas-kibera-slum.html

this article also talks of government

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Bogart replied on Thu, Jan 3 2013 10:06 AM

There is government all around.  Some agency is regulating who these folks can interace with outside of the area.  Otherwise a place like this would attract lots of foreign capital as investors would be hungry to get all of that entrepreneurial minded labor. 

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