One on one with the man who has cremated over 8,000 Kenyans at Kariokor

“This is what I love doing. I have fed and educated my children through this."

Tucked between the sprawling Kariokor area and Gikomba market, in Nairobi, is Kariokor Crematorium, whose deathly silence welcomes visitors into an expansive and serene land of the dead. While superstitious Kenyans wouldn’t be caught dead loitering around the premises, this is where Robert Mwania, now in his 60s, spends his days, engaged in his “dream job”. For Mwania, preparing bodies and watching them disintegrate into smoke for those who choose cremation to depart into the afterworld, is just another day in the office.

“This is what I love doing. I have fed and educated my children through this,” Mwania who has been cremating bodies since 1997 previously told The Nairobian.