First, we make decisions, then decisions make us. Clay Oduor, the regional managing director Processing Africa (Network International) is a summation of his choices. First was the decision to leave Kenya to go abroad. Then the decision to come back. His most consequential one yet was the decision to convert to Islam. “That decision took me 10 years to make.”
But underneath this patina of adulthood is a childhood in Eastleigh, and a schooling at St Trizah’s that chalked out a man who describes himself as just another simple, ordinary guy. Just a guy from Eastlands. He says growing up there, in “Eastlando”, in such a diverse community made him who he is today. The kind of guy who knows everyone—and is known by everyone.
