Allan Nicholas Mwangi arrives at this interview half an hour before time. He has a fitness watch on either of his hands. These watches are as much about his fitness and keeping time as they are about his health. By a casual observation, he is what many would call fit, judging from his gait, which is ramrod straight. He has never struggled with weight, and there was a time in his life when he thought that certain ailments were meant for people who don’t look like him. He admits it was either out of ignorance or arrogance.
Until late 2019, the software developer, who has just turned 39, never gave fitness a chance; he was after all, spindly and wiry, a metric he says, can be deceiving. “If doctors used their sight to fully examine and determine one’s health, we all could be dead by now.”
