“For three years, I experienced the vagaries of street life in Nairobi’s Saika estate, during which I worked as a vegetable errand boy to and from Gikomba market to survive,” he says and says that delinquency, hunger and mistreatment by indifferent members of public were a constant companion in this life.
Life offered very little to laugh about but somehow he chose to embrace comedy as a vehicle to numb the misery of harsh street-life, encouraged by members of little-known Barikiwa set book group who often staged show in various colleges.
Come February, Churchill Show came calling and this young man beat everyone in the auditions.
