BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI Dress up and show up. You’ll find reason when you shut your door behind you, sit at your desk and fire up your laptop. A person who works from bed doesn’t yet understand what a pair of brown leather shoes can do to your work morale. It
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI It’s the morning of my birthday. I’m standing under the shower scrubbing my soapy back. I’m taking a cold shower because mornings are for cold showers. Cold showers are great for all these sexy scientific appeals – makes you more alert, doesn’t dry out your skin and
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Hunt like a hungry lioness: A miniseries on Craft It about Nairobi’s creatives #5. NEWTON OMONDI: TATTOO ARTIST Newton Omondi’s fingers are a metaphor of urban strife, they’re the plucky fingers of a man who isn’t lucky but deserving of the fate he chose for himself at 29. When he
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Hunt like a hungry lioness: A miniseries on Craft It about Nairobi’s creatives #4. LAURA LWALA: PRYDE ARTZ JEWELLERY Laura Lwala has the psyche of the girl next door, the one you grew up with. She’s modest, chatty and has great eye contact. We’ve just sat down and she already
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Hunt like a hungry lioness: A miniseries on Craft It about Nairobi’s creatives #3: LINDSAY DAWN ADHIAMBO: AH THIS, BODY ART Lindsay Dawn Adhiambo will make a canvas out of your skin if you let her. Take a look at yourself right now, c’mon. Look at the back of your
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Hunt like a hungry lioness: A miniseries on Craft It about Nairobi’s creatives #2. IAN ARUNGA: CREATOR OF DAPPER MONKEY (AND PLENTY MORE) Sitting across from Ian Arunga at Lava Latte, listening, I picture him as a juggler manipulating several balls in the air. The first ball he threw into
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