BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI It’s Friday, 9.30a.m. GB and I are seated in Jambo Jet’s lounge waiting to board our flight to Coasto. Our pal has his ruracio in Mtwapa tomorrow. Our flight is at 12p.m. We bought our tickets over the counter, at Jambo Jet’s sales office at the airport.
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI #1. “Make sure everyone you meet knows what you do” Lucy Mutiso started her bakery when she was 17 and fresh out of high school. She made her first million at 21 and now, at
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BY SIMON KING: GUEST WRITER The light of day was slowly draining away giving way to the nightfall skies. Underneath them, a small town pulsated to life as pubs, githeri, chapati, mtura and other night time vendors opened for business. The rains had fallen all day and night and the
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI The bad news isn’t that I’m ageing. The bad news is that I’m ageing, and I see it and feel it. I’m 33 now. I wouldn’t have noticed the needle of my body clock inch if I wasn’t so self aware and so alert to the shift
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI “Why did you choose to make bags, Benta?” “I’d wanted to continue with doing shoes but lack of good quality soles led me to making bags, that was the easier option for me. Cause everything was available in Kenya – the leather, these fittings, the accessories of
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI “What drives you, Jazeera?” “I’m afraid of being poor. I’m always afraid that I won’t have money in my pocket that’s why I work so hard. I know that sounds crazy but that’s my motto. We’ve been there as a family, we’ve been through bad times and
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