How Kitui family ginnery has kept going strong for 85 years

A cacophony of random hooting and throbbing of engines as ubiquitous boda bodas, three-wheelers and matatus jostle defines Kitui Town's central business district.

The noise filters into the office of Taher Zavery, the managing director at Kitui Ginnery, an industrial behemoth standing defiantly on Nzambani Road. The thriving cotton ginnery, he reveals, has been churning out tonnes of lint and seed for 85 years now. It has the technological innovation to thank for its survival.