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by Kagonya Ngana, Kenya
It is a lazy, Wednesday afternoon when I meet up with Steve Nyaga, the proprietor of Pop Inn boutique, a middle-income clothing shop retailing in womens’ apparel. Pop Inn is located in Ongata Rongai, a town in the Great Rift Valley some 22 kilometers from the capital city,
Nairobi. The cool aesthetically lit interior was a great relief from the scorching sun outside. Steve was working on an interior design order online when I walked in, giving the impression that there was more to his life than just selling clothes.
short contracts as an illustrator for local book publishing firms, it dawned on him that he needed to be creative in order to make a substantial living to cater for his young family then.
“ART IS A PASSION” Like many youths all over the world, Steve completed his studies in Fine Art and
clothes with an average start-up capital
“well paying job.” However, after doing
his father. A lover of all things colorful, he