T Michael Mboya
Back in the early 1990s I wrote for a regional weekly based in Eldoret. By using affordable paper, printing technology and labour we put out a sensibly priced product that sought to meet the information needs of wananchi. In that sense, it was your typical Jua Kali practice. The seed capital for the weekly came from the proprietor. The man had returned from the US with enough dollars to live on and some to spare. He used some of the pocket change to set himself on a path to the achievement of a childhood dream to own a newspaper.