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How a floating hotel 'gamble' has paid off

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The floating bar and restaurant on Lamu Island in Lamu County. [Robert Menza, Standard]

Travelling to the idyllic Lamu island and never setting foot on the floating bar and restaurant, operating between Shella and Manda, is an incomplete tour.

Here, a mother of two, Fridah Njogu, aged 40, calls the shots. For the last 12 years, she has operated the floating bar and restaurant where revellers watch as the sun rises or sets.

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