Meet the whiteman who has been reduced to selling Githeri in Ukinda to survive

Wolfgang Fley is a foreigner from Germany who ha been in Kenya for years.He has a hotel in Coast where he sells varieties of food to earn living.It might sound weird to many people to see a white man selling food like githeri in Kenya for a living but believe it or not, Wolfgang Fley owns a hotel in Ukunda, selling local good foodstuff and he claims that the job is quite promising.Fley's hotel is a single room covered with coconut palm fronds, known as "makuti" suited in Ukunda in Kwale, with an open entrance and a menu displayed next to the door.On the menu, the food names are written in an amusing way with spelling errors, for instance, black tea is spelled as ‘blach tea,’ while ‘giteri’ is meant to be githeri. The cost of food ranges from Sh10 to Sh40 per plate.Wolfgang stipulated that he cooks and sell githeri, cabbages, sima, chapati and other dishes and will soon start makingpilau.He works with his 57-year-old Kenyan wife, Maureen Samuel, with whom he lives in a rented Swahili house. He discloses that he was a chef in Germany and cooking is his favourite job.He discloses that its now two years down the line since he opened the hotel and that most of his clients are local business people in the adjacent Ibiza market.“Kenyan meals are easy to cook,” says the German as he walked out to get change for Sh500 for his customer.Maureen Samuel, the only waitress says that she was employed to assist him in communicating with customers who hardly speak English or Kiswahili.