Once bustling Gikomba now trades in dead mitumba stock

Traders at Gikomba market going about their business. [Edward Kiplimo/Standard]

Antony Sende is a man of few words. This is unexpected of a trader in Gikomba market.

I find him seated with his back on the makeshift wall separating his stall and that of his neighbour. He stares at the jumbled up pile of clothes on a mat.

On the far end are a few pair of shoes that are not in a hurry to be sold, and Sende does not even take a glance at them. His eyes are fixed on the mitumba clothes in front of him.