After a decade in Norway, Covid sent me back home- Music promoter Donnah Obera

Donnah Obera, an events organiser, flies back home from Oslo armed with a dream and what's left of her savings to start afresh.

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As the Norwegian government sent the country's capital, Oslo, to another lockdown last Monday, Donnah Obera, a music promoter based there, was at the airport boarding a flight back to Kenya. A single day’s delay would probably mean she wouldn’t get a chance to leave Oslo. As the plane pierced through the skies, she felt a sense of relief, disrupted by a nagging sense of guilt and unease. She was returning home after a harsh year when the entertainment scene from which she makes a living went dead, making life miserable. She left her three children behind, which is her biggest worry now. She wonders how they will survive without her.