It is high noon in the Kaloleni area of Nairobi. A Kenya Air Force light aircraft lifts off from nearby Eastleigh Air Base. Minutes later, it crashes into the Gorofani flats of Kaloleni Estate, snuffing out the lives of 52 people. This was what shaped the children of military men back then – the duality of life. Here now, gone the next moment. The militaristic obsession for order, systems, and duty.
Clifford Kinyua, son of an Air Force flight instructor, was some of those things, but also not. For starters, he is a more present father. “My father was absent a lot on national duty,” he says. When he came home, he was a stranger as we had all grown up.”
