Hiring out shirts at Sh10,000 a day and other creative ways Kenyans are minting cash

Paul Maina had to brave the sun and long queues at Nyayo House to get his passport renewed. It took him three long hours to get to the very last counter where his photo was to be taken.

But as he stood to enter that final room, relieved that the end was in sight, the Immigration officer he approached turned him away, barely sparing him a glance. He was confused. What had gone wrong? Come back in a shirt, he was curtly told.