BY BETT KINYATTI Many harvests ago, I interviewed a craftsman for a magazine column. She back then handmade children’s furniture from her workshop on Ngong Road. She made them from MDF. It was charmingly gorgeous furniture in baby pink and cream white, coral blue and playful red. The colours of
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BY BETT KINYATTI I wouldn’t be writing this story if I hadn’t been so gullible to the facades of social media. Scrolling through my Instagram timeline, seeing interior decor hacks I fancied and blindly imitating them. I’m desperate to separate myself from my sins, but I’m reminded of them at
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BY BETT KINYATTI I don’t own any piece of furniture upholstered in Ankara. Not in my home, studio or Pinterest idea boards. What I have though, are maxi Ankara dresses hanging in my closet. Those ready-made ones from La Belle at Imenti House. I wear them to church on Sundays
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BY BETT KINYATTI It’s Saturday. I’m at a bar in tao with Mike and his two pals. They’re all millenials, Nairobi Millenials. They have a playful youthful energy about them that I secretly envy. It’s like they’re bouncing on the balls of their feet. (Well, except Mike Muthaka, my dear
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BY BETT KINYATTI I don’t know how to say this gently so I’ll come right out and say it – I’m balding. Smack in the middle of my head, right here are the top of it, a few inches down from my hairline, the spot where the sunshine or a
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BY BETT KINYATTI Tail end of January I buy socks from this Instagram page that sells socks. I won’t tell you their name because I’m not in the business of running another businesses’ rep through the mud. We’re all in this town to chase paper and their frustrations are as
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