PREMIUM Ringlight, camera, action: So this is how Kenyan girls make money? My mouth is forming an 'O' and it feels like I have been living in a different, sheltered Nairobi. Saturday Magazine Just now Listen

Later while Ubering home I’d go to the platform’s page and find out that one can be a King, “the highest tipper in a model’s room within the last 12 hours of streaming” and it completely made sense why men are starved of affirmations, these emasculated, low-value kings, and why prostitution cures it: they tell you what you want to hear, how you want to hear it.

I'd love to tell you that Tr Monica, my Sunday School teacher, who was also seeing Davy the choirleader and son of the pastor, was perched on my shoulder reminding me of the vagaries of this world and how a young man can keep his ways pure.

My mouth is forming an ‘O’ and it feels like I have been living in a different Nairobi, a sheltered Nairobi, the kind of Kenya that does not exist in the president’s mind when he talks about a “New Singapore.