BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI Help me out here, will you? I want to describe how Manje’s store of preserved hides and skins smells like but I can’t quite finds the right words. [After several days of several failed attempts…] OK, here’s a morbid – and
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI In the six years “Tell me, Florah, in the six years of running your business here at Trio Crafts, was there ever a time you considered closing shop and walking away?” “Yes,” says Florah, exasperating, “and not just once but several times.
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI I got married early this month. On 3rd February. It was a Saturday, a gorgeous Saturday in this gorgeous Nairobi. As the bride, I had many worries and concerns before my Wedding Day. Concerns like,
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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 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 MARCH ‘17 Wallace asked me to meet him at the gate of Toyota, the one on Church Road in Westy. We agreed to meet at 11.30AM. As I stood at that gate waiting for him to show, I felt in my bones the tingle of a being
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