Winston Churchill smoked one. Fidel Castro smoked one too. And at least a few Kenyan guys, like Jeff Koinange, occasionally smoke a cigar as well.
So now that Africa’s first luxury cigar, the Bongani was just launched this past week at the Fairmont Norfolk Hotel, it’s likely that quite a few more Kenyan men— and maybe a few women — will also take up this stylist (non-inhaling) smokers’ habit.