Mumbua Mutuva, 54, reserves a deep sigh for people who ask him about the 1997 El Niño rains. He recalls the year with a mixture of nostalgia and frustrations.
At the time, Mumbua, then 28 years old, worked as a driver delivering newspapers to different parts of the country. The day the heavy rains started, he was heading to Mombasa- a route that would become synonymous with treacherous challenges as the El Niño rains pounded the land.
