The term originates from the era of German and then British urban planning that organized the colonial city into three zones that were effectively divided between racial groups. Although the city has long outgrown this model, the colonial framing remains a pervasive cultural trope. Frantz Fanon and Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o remind us of how the colonial framing of the city was experienced by the colonized. As the city has extended into these rural areas in the postcolonial period, the government has struggled to keep up. Since the early 2000s, government efforts to provide housing in the city have been limited to similar schemes that have planted small oases of planned, serviced neighborhoods in the wider, insecure city.