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BBC Pop Up gets its story ideas from you, the audience. You submit them. We film them.

So far, we've collected them over Twitter using hashtag #bbcpopup, external and via a live radio programme. But the story ideas continue to pour in over email as well.

We’ve had lots of ideas coming from all over the world, especially from NGOs doing important work in Kenya. But now that we’re in Nairobi, it will be interesting to hear how these ideas compare to what Kenyans themselves come up with.

We'll compile all of these – from Twitter, email and our in-person meet-ups – in a future post. But until then, here is a list of the 20 most recent suggestions we've received.

There's still time to get involved, so get in touch by contacting BBC Pop Up on Twitter, external, through our live blog or by emailing bbcpopup@bbc.co.uk

Below are the story ideas you've sent us most recently over email:

1.     Glacial ice on Mt Kenya: “See how global warming has dramatically shrunk the glacial ice on the equator. ‘Tropical ice is no more.’” EMAIL: Nigel

2.     Missionary history: What do Kenyans think of the Christian missionaries that once roamed the country, mostly between 1930-1990? Are missionaries still in Kenya? EMAIL: Donna

3.     Transforming cars into off-road vehicles: A look at a local business helping Kenyans to transform their cars into off-road vehicles. EMAIL: Pedr

4.     Kenya’s flower farmers: Kenya produces a large amount of the world’s flowers in super greenhouses. But some claim there are environmental impacts, like issues with the water supply. EMAIL: Richard

5.     Maasai and conservation safari: A look at a sustainable and conservation-oriented safari company that works in partnership with the local Maasai community. EMAIL: Petronilla

6.     Refugee start-up: A start-up created to help assist the refugee community just outside of Nairobi. EMAIL: Peter

7.     Eclipse: Try to catch an eclipse of the sun by lake Turkana in Kenya. EMAIL: Shehu 

8.     Last of the wilderness: A look into the NGOs who are striving to preserve many of the last areas of wilderness in Africa. EMAIL: John

9.     Cargo plane start-up: A look into a Russian team flying cargo between African countries as part of a start-up. EMAIL: Stewart

10.  Agriculture and climate change: How are NGOs helping Kenyan farmers revamp their workload due to climate change? EMAIL: John

11.  What do Kenyans know? Similar to a recent BBC Pop Up video, Americans are sometimes asked on-camera to demonstrate their ignorance in the area of international geography. “What can you tell me about Kenya?” However, what would happen if Kenyans were asked “What do you know about America?” EMAIL: Robert

12.  Blind Kenyan drummers: A group that teaches blind Kenyans the power of music through drumming. EMAIL: Santiago

13.  African Heritage House: Now a national monument of Kenya, it has been offered to the Obama Foundation and Library. EMAIL: Alan

14.  What will be hidden to Obama? A look at what might be hidden from the Obama motorcade, ie removing homeless youth from streets. EMAIL: Rob

15.  Brits killed by the Mau-Mau: Personal stories of British ancestors killed by the group. EMAIL: Julia

16.  An in-depth look at a rural Kenyan village: The Kianjai area of Tigania West has a wonderful community with stories worth telling. EMAIL: Caroline

17.  A day in the life of a Nairobi driver: Speak to Nairobi driver Roy, whom “everyone loves” about what life is like transporting people around the city. EMAIL: Brendan

18.  Business community: Why and how is Nairobi attracting international business? EMAIL: Han

19. Donkey welfare: A group looking to improve the lives of the 1.8 million donkeys in Kenya through veterinarian assistance. EMAIL: Jamie

20.   Melting pot country:  Kenya is a melting pot of different cultures, languages and traditions. “We have 42 different tribes and 62 different languages. In spite of all this diversity, we have managed to coexist in peace.” EMAIL: N/A

Matt, external here.

Christian Parkinson is the new video journalist who has joined the team this month. British by birth, South African by choice, Christian creates BBC features in Johannesburg but has ventured north for a few weeks to join us for Pop Up in Nairobi.

Christian and I have now filmed two stories in two days here in Nairobi. (He also edited one somewhere in the middle of all of it.) And I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a faster VJ, let alone worked with one. This man is part machine.

I can't believe how much content he is able to churn out. Notes are now being taken from my new sensei.

Just judging from this weekend, this month is going to be fantastic!

I write all this partially to warm him up to the idea of giving me his fancy camera strap. (Kidding. Kind of.)

BBC Pop Up has landed in Nairobi! We flew in last night and immediately hit the ground running. Pop Up journalist Christian Parkinson , externalfilmed a story idea the team received via Twitter that tasked us with investigating some of the 44 languages spoken within Nairobi's borders. To do this, Christian and Matt Danzico, external went to Kibera, one of Africa's largest slums which is also one of Kenya's densest cultural hotspots.

Christian followed a local resident named Peter (pictured above) who took him around a main strip in the neighbourhood to meet his friends. We heard roughly a half dozen languages being spoken within a half hour.

Below are just a few of the stills taken during our trip to Kibera. Stay tuned for the upcoming story, which will run this week.

BBC Pop Up journalist Matt Danzico has been finding out what Kenyan Americans think the rest of the US should know about their homeland. He went to Dallas, Texas, where a radio station serving the immigrant community is based, to ask for story ideas. 

We stopped New Yorkers to find out ahead of our upcoming trip to Nairobi.

Anne Soy
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Image source, Anne Soy

Hi, I’m Anne. And I'm going to be working with BBC Pop Up in Nairobi this month.

I grew up in green highlands of Rift Valley where some of the world’s best long distance runners come from. I couldn’t keep up with their pace, so I moved to Nairobi in 2005 to pursue a career in journalism. 

After seven years on the local scene, I crossed over to the BBC as bi-lingual reporter in 2013. It’s been an exciting experience covering stories in a rising continent, from start-ups by brilliant and daring young entrepreneurs to some successful political transitions. 

Sadly, the story of conflict, displacement, and disease is never far from Africa. I reported on the war that broke out in South Sudan in December 2013. I have been to see mass graves filled with hundreds of bodies. The story of Somalia has been reduced to ‘one more attack’. 

Yet in the midst of all insecurity there, I’ve been able to report on a street-lighting project (It’s a big deal there.) and Somalis’ love for football. Here in Kenya, the militant attack on Westgate Shopping Mall nearly two years ago is what many people around the world remember of Nairobi.

But the city is keen to show its resilience by re-opening the mall sometime this month. I was thrilled when BBC Pop Up chose to come to Nairobi on its first tour outside the US. Karibu Nairobi! 

Nairobi is the gateway into the region and Sub-Sahara Africa. Nairobi is the financial, logistical and commercial hub of East Africa. It’s a melting pot of cultures, a vibrant city, the place to be. So follow BBC Pop Up and me as we take you on an exciting safari around the city under the sun.

Our friends at BBC Trending have created a video about popular African hashtag #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. Our goals very much align with this campaign – to film stories you suggest and show the world the untold stories of Kenya.

In a typical BBC Pop Up video, we will often turn the camera on ourselves for 30 seconds to explain to viewers what they are about to watch. You can see an example of this practice by watching one of our great video journalists, Benjamin Zand, external, in the video above. (His on-camera link starts at 00:23 seconds.)

Links are the times in a report when the journalist speaks directly to the camera. During last year's trip around the US, each of us experimented with our links by sometimes filming ourselves with a small Go Pro camera, external and other times asking our colleagues to help us film them with a Canon C100, external.

We used the Canon C100s to film our actual stories, and looking back I, external don't think we should have also used them for our on-camera appearances. The point of putting ourselves on camera was to give the programme a behind-the-scenes feel. But I don't think viewers get the intended sense of transparency when our links are of the same quality as the stories themselves. When we used the C100s, the links flowed too seamlessly into the reports, making it difficult to tell the difference between the link and the story.

You can see another example of the two styles in the video at the bottom of this page. We used a Go Pro to give the video a gritty edge during the first 34 seconds. Benjamin then appears on camera with the C100 from 00:35.

This time around, we're toying with the idea of having the BBC Pop Up reporters only deliver their lines with a Go Pro. Though I realise that filming oneself with a Go Pro is not nearly as popular as it once was, I am otherwise stumped as to how to demonstrate this difference in quality that we hope to achieve.

Our travelling bureau's mission is to tell local stories from neighbourhoods across the world. Our journalist Matt Danzico, external snapped a photo yesterday from a window in his New York neighbourhood. We then put out a request on social media, external, asking those on Facebook and Twitter to send in a photo using hashtag #bbcpopup that was taken from a window in their neighbourhood. Here are a few of the photos we received.

Image source, Jessi

Image source, Randa

Image source, Saviour

This is what the start of summer looks like as viewed through an ordinary window where I, external live in Brooklyn, New York. This picture was taken around 20:00 last night.

I'm off to #Nairobi, external on 10 July with @BBCpopup, external. Can anyone show me what life will look like through a window in an ordinary neighbourhood there? Send your photo over Twitter @bbcpopup, external or email me at bbcpopup@bbc.co.uk. I'll post it here on the BBC website.