Life is treating Dr David Gicheru Kariuki well. He sounds happy. He looks happy. But most importantly he is happy. These are far removed from his days in university as a mitumba seller, where he was Mr Steal-Your-Girl, wearing the latest fashion fads—that only he had access to. “Camera, mali safi,” he says.
Sat across me in the gazebo of Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel along Ralph Bunche Road, in the sweltering heat and a monochromatic suit, the head honcho of the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) travels 20 years back to when it all started. The table tennis. The darts. That cigarette moment. The Arsenal. Oh, The Arsenal. His great, and oft, lifelong unrequited love.
