BBC Pop Up: Story ideas from the people of Kenya

BBC Pop Up held a town meeting in Nairobi to discuss what stories local residents would like the team to film

BBC Pop Up is the company's travelling bureau, which relocates to a new city or country each month to film story ideas submitted by their audience.

The team spent the month of July in Kenya with the BBC East Africa bureau, covering issues suggested to them at a town meeting in Nairobi and through social media.

The team will head to its next stop on 21 September. Check back to see which country they will be visiting or get involved on their behind-the-scenes live blog.

What Kenya stories would Pop Up viewers and Kenyan residents like the world to know about?

Below is the full list of story ideas submitted by their viewers as well as the videos made from some of those ideas.

  • High-altitude athletic training centres

  • Donkey welfare non-profits

  • A look at US President Obama's ancestors, as well as his father's hometown

  • How do 42 different tribes speaking 62 languages share one city?

Kenya is the land of languages

  • Displaced wild animals

  • Students journeying from UK to Kenya to build classrooms

  • Travel advisories and tourism

  • Open sewer turned into an opportunity for a school in the Kibera slum

  • Chinese investment in Kenyan infrastructure versus the plight of the African elephant

  • A look at how different administrations are using federal dollars

  • A look at the national park within Kenya's capital

  • An inside look at life in a rural Kenyan village

Take a tour of a rural Kenyan village

  • Conservation on tribal land: Groups helping tribes to understand how to conserve land

  • Beyond Zero Campaign, which helps mothers and children overcome challenges related to HIV

  • A Maasai musical

  • Refugees in Dadaab

  • Mau Mau uprising lawsuit

  • Widow abuse

  • Are police receiving new training as the security situation changes in Kenya?

  • Who are those spending money on terror groups within Kenya?

  • "Why are journalists only covering what government feeds them?"

  • Modernising security alarm systems

  • The power of Kenyans on Twitter or #KOT

#KOT is the 'most important thing in Kenya right now'

  • Centralised emergency communication

  • Radicalisation of news

  • More police in northern Kenya

  • Why are so many Kenyan surveillance street cameras broken?

  • Elephants that have learned to build tree bridges over moats to get to farm crops

  • Monkeys that bother women and not men. Why is this?

  • Why Kenyan animals are sold so frequently to international zoos

  • Flamingos: Why are there so many in Kenya?

  • What is the relationship between normal taxis and Uber in Kenya?

  • Why are Kenya start-ups so successful?

Is this Kenya's Steve Jobs?

  • Kenyan youth and a rise in atheism

  • How small farmers survive

  • A 1,000km walk in Northern Kenya to protest against terror attacks

  • The popularity of football in decline with youth in the country

  • Kenyan coffee and tea "not making it beyond country's borders as often as it should"

  • Crimes scenes handled poorly by police.

  • Sex tourism happening in areas near the coast

  • Giraffe centre in Nairobi

  • Traffic

  • US entertainers banding together to build an orphanage in the Kibera slum

  • Nairobi as a hub of social innovation

  • Reproductive health and sexual rights

  • Sexual education in schools

  • LGBT rights

  • The creative industry's economic impact

  • Censorship in the Kenyan film industry

  • Street violence

  • Lack of parks and play spaces in Nairobi

  • Land grabbing

  • The consequences of illicit brew or illegal alcohol

Some wives are taking desperate measures

  • Football drinking culture

  • Women in football

  • Tribal tag in local football

  • Unemployment

  • Fashion bloggers in Kenya

  • Quality of education in Kenya

  • The power of a university student chair

  • Nairobi's growing art scene

A cartoonist who is satirising Obama

  • New Kenyan literary authors

  • Rise of citizen journalism

  • Upcycling: reusing garbage for new products

  • The "walking nation"

  • Why are Kenyans so happy?

  • "Change agents" in slums

  • Nubian community

  • The anti-gay debate in Kenya

Kenyans tell the BBC their feelings on President Obama's comments about gay rights

  • Bird species in Kenya

  • Is Kenyan media getting Kenya right?

  • Young women in leadership

  • Social media for positive change

  • Jiggers: fleas that burrow into skin

  • How does tribalism drive Kenyans apart?

  • Environment and climate change in Kenya

  • Women drug users

  • Female genital mutilation

  • Teenage gangsters

  • Elvis, the Kenyan country musician

Who knew Kenya loved country music?

  • Positive mental health stories

  • Mobile technology hub of Africa

  • Young Kenyan scientists

  • Bringing tech to Kenyan villages

  • Can Kenyan garbage enrich rural village land?

  • Fear of donkey meat

  • Obama's favourite snack

  • Wealth disparity: Lavish golf courses flanked by slums

  • Matatu minibuses

Take a tour of Nairobi with a local

  • Why is the term "Jambo" used only with tourists?

  • Anti-gay legislation debate

  • Technological revolution in #Kenya government services

  • African youth Twitter campaign seeking to end stereotypes

  • Inaccurate perceptions about Kenya's different tribes

  • Westgate anniversary

Siege survivor Ben Mulwa, returned to the mall: "The screams will never leave my mind"

  • Loss of glacial ice on Mt Kenya

  • History of Christian missionaries

  • Transforming cars into off-road vehicles

  • Kenya's super greenhouses and their effect on the environment

  • Maasai and conservation safaris

  • Refugee start-ups

  • "Land of lunar eclipses"

  • NGOs striving to preserve last areas of African wilderness

  • How are Kenyan farmers being affected by climate change?

  • What do Kenyans know about America?

  • Blind Kenyan drummers

  • What will be hidden to Obama when he visits?

  • Historical accounts of Brits killed by the Mau-Mau

  • A day in the life of a Nairobi driver

  • Why and how is Nairobi attracting international business?

  • The Greenbelt Movement

  • Wildlife spotting

  • Farming schools

  • Orphaned baby elephants

  • Ebola and tourism

  • Schools sharing resources because of limited funds

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