A boda boda ride that opened my economic eyes

Boda-boda riders in Migori County staged a protest for two days over unfair taxation, bad roads. The riders are from four Sub-Counties which inlcude Suna West, Suna East, Uriri and Rongo. [ Anne Atieno/Standard]

One of the tragedies of improving your economic status is getting isolated from ordinary people, the hoi polloi.

Owning a car makes your life lonely. I miss with sincerity the good old days when I could easily strike up a conversation with a stranger in a matatu. When phones had not enslaved us and taken our humanity away.