Personally, I prefer one-inch sisal for the job. You get too many blisters on your hands from nylon. That unsolicited testimonial comes from Rhodesia’s retired hangman, Edward (“The Dropper”) Milton, ...
Agnes Wanja (left) and Mary Gakii attend to a sisal farm in Kithangani area Tharaka-Nithi County. The crop has boosted the area’s economy. (Muthengi Muthomi Standard) Kithangani village, a semiarid ...
Kenyan farmer Sam Mung’ala once struggled to feed his family by growing cowpeas and sorghum. These days he is betting on a new type of merchandise: shopping bags. The farmer from Kibwezi town in the ...
Nigeria is still the biggest buyer of Kenyan sisal, fuelled by a construction boom in West Africa.The latest update by the ...