
When Njoki Karuoya first told me I was to act as editor for Home & Away for the two months she was to be away studying in Berlin, I felt my stomach churn in discomfort. A feeling of fear overwhelmed me. It was like I was being taken for surgery without the benefit of anaesthesia. To make matters worse, she was not talking about overseeing the operations of this magazine for one week, but for two months which, for me, seemed like eternity.