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Ruth Kamau currently going through breast cancer treatment (Photo: Waweru Murage/Standard)
Ruth Kaburu Kamau, 39, waits patiently inside one of the rooms at Nairobi Hospice along Hospital Road in Nairobi.
Dressed in a red skirt suit and a white headscarf, Kamau who is undergoing treatment for Stage 3 breast cancer, keenly listens to one of the facility’s staff as she’s being briefed on the interview she is about to have with this writer.
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