Kenya’s transgender warrior: from suicide bid to celebrity
By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Audrey Mbugua will not say whether it was a razor blade, pills or carbon monoxide that she used to try to kill herself.
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Kenya’s transgender warrior: from suicide bid to celebrity
By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Audrey Mbugua will not say whether it was a razor blade, pills or carbon monoxide that she used to try to kill herself. Born a male in Kenya and given the name Andrew, she felt trapped in the wrong body and started dressing in women’s clothes while at university, attracting ridicule and rejection. After graduation, Mbugua was jobless, penniless and alone.
Read moreKenya’s technology push leaves investors cold
By Drazen Jorgic NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s technology rush gave hope that new ideas would help millions of Africans use their mobile phones to circumvent poor infrastructure but local start-ups are failing to draw major investors or create profits. Lack of talent, problems in attaining seed capital and ideas that cannot be sold to a mass market or easily monetized have so far held back hundreds of Kenyan start ups
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