He comes out like a normal person walking in the streets of Diani town in Kwale County. With a blue sack stuffed with papers and traveling documents on his back, Joshua is a disturbed man.

He has nowhere to sleep nor money for food and for the better part of his visit to the country, he has depended on well-wishers for food, cigarettes and a place to lay his head. Joshua is from Germany and with his less understanding of the English language. He tells The Nairobian that he arrived in the country on May 20, 2016.

“I came from Germany, then Addis Ababa in Ethiopia where I took a flight to Mombasa Airport then down here in Diani with a matatu,” he reads from a scribbled paper. We are forced now to use a translator who tells us that he believed too much in a Kenyan friend who made away with all that he had. The interview does not last for long as he refuses the first translator and calls a second one, Jeff Martin.