It takes more than an hour on foot to traverse the muddy terrain that leads to Antoinette’s expansive rice farm in Chamassuia, a local village about five kilometres from Lôvua settlement in Angola’s Lunda Norte province.

Few people in the Kiambaa area of Kikuyu constituency on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital can dispute Mushewa Ndolo’s talent as a carpenter. His hard work, and not to mention his handiwork, has endeared him to dozens of loyal clients for whom he has tailor-made furniture.