As he sat, he assured me that he was not a beggar.
“I thought I’d be alone.”
It was at the Nairobi Arboretum, I was waiting for a model. I shrugged and indulged him when he sparked a conversation.
He’d just returned from Israel where he’d allegedly met government officials and convinced them to stop the inhumane treatment of Palestine.
“Do you know why Mossad is so good?”
“No.”
“This.”
He lit up a blunt and went on to ask me if I knew the passage in the Bible about Jesus coming like a thief…
It was 15 minutes after he had excused himself to go meet emissaries from Syria that I noticed my bag, containing my laptop and camera, was also gone.
‘Pictory’ – A picture and a story speaking of and from each other.
Photography – Kimani Wandaka
Story – Ngartia
In Coherence. 