No shortcuts, your story is only as good as research that goes into it

No shortcuts, your story is only as good as research that goes into it

Let’s talk about food. Dr Kefa Bosire, a pharmacist, wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Nairobi a decade ago on chinsaga (saga, sageti, akeyo/dek or what mzungus call the spider plant). It is the queen of vegetables in Bosire’s community, the Abagusii. “The knowledge and selection of this subject for study was motivated by a deep desire to explore the richness of cultural knowledge and the fascination with the diversity of plants used by …