Hustle Gang: Mending old shoes made me a landlord

Francis Wachira has bought a pickup and built four one-bedroom rental houses from his cobbler business.

In the serene Kwazulu Cresent neighbourhood in Nairobi’s Kasarani estate, sits an elderly man on a dusty bench; a ragged apron on his thighs and old boots firmly held in his hands.

His name is Francis Wachira, the estate cobbler but also a landlord of one of the estates in that neighbourhood.