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High on herbs, the miraa driver is master of all he sees

By Joseph Maina

The miraa driver wakes up at 3am, shoves a lorry-load of miraa stems into his mouth and leaps out of his Meru bedroom with only one thought in his vegetarian mind: To be at the airport in Nairobi before 3am.

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