Blood all over, you had to jump over bodies. That was August 1998

Minutes after the blast: Cars on top of each other like a badly-done sandwich. [File, Standard]

The fortunes of The Star, a fierce twice-a-week newspaper edited by the late extravagantly bearded, soft-spoken but virulently anti-Kanu Magayu Magayu were tumbling headlong.

So, on a cloudy August I was on my way to The East African Standard’s offices at Likoni Road for a sub-editor’s job interview that never happened.