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How unemployment pushes youth into web of exploitation

An overworked African businessman sitting at his desk. [Photo: Courtesy]

It is nearing 10pm on a Sunday evening and George Muya is still busy banging a computer keyboard at a cyber café in Fedha Estate, Nairobi.

Muya, 29, is trying to beat the deadline for a four-page essay assignment for an international client. The topic is horizontal violence in nursing, a subject he never studied.

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