Christine Musonye Mugalisi, 59, after robotic knee replacement surgery at Metropolitan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. She has been battling arthritis for the past 15 years. [Maryann Anyango, Standard]
She sounds calm, happy and relieved. For the first time in 15 years, 59-year-old Christine Musonye Mugalisi speaks without the heaviness of pain weighing down every sentence. There is laughter between her words and an unmistakable sense of freedom.