BY FLORENCE BETT March ‘17 I find him waiting at the dining table. He’s doing something on his laptop, maybe sending an email. He’s wearing a warm sweater and this makes me feel even hotter, he’s like a radiator. Allow me to introduce him to you: Meet
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BY FLORENCE BETT #1. The Understudy by David Nichols A street purchase I was embarrassed about then later stopped being embarrassed about. I bought this plus two other books downtown for 100 bob. I know. ‘The Understudy’ is about
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BY FLORENCE BETT “So your name is Mugethi Gitau?” “Yes.” “Spell that for me, please.” “M-U-G-E-T-H-I G-I-T-A-U.” Great! And your brand is…? “Mugzie’s
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BY FLORENCE BETT My nanny split. Two weeks into the New Year, on a Sunday evening, around the time she should have been making her way back home after her day off, she sent me a long text. “Nimeona sitaendelea na kazi…” it began. I let out a long deflating
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BY FLORENCE BETT I thought about Nyambura Thuo for several moments of several days before we met. About why she chose to make shoes. I thought about her so much it bordered on unhealthy. Thinking while going through my day, it was as if I were hypnotized or in a
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BY FLORENCE BETT Out of the entr’acte between sunset and darkness, when most of Nairobi is hunkered between the inevitable mature of what-now to what-next, I slink into the back seat of an Uber. It’s a Thursday, and I’m headed to Century Cinemax at the Junction on Ngong Road to
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