A life on the road had caught up with Alphonce Wambua. Twenty-five years of transporting cargo between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa, nine hours’ drive away, had resulted in long days, a poor diet and an irregular sleep routine for the trucker. Still, it came as a shock when doctors told him he had hypertension a few years ago.
“I wasn’t expecting it – I thought I just had serious fatigue,” says Wambua, who has stopped by the clinic where he was diagnosed to pick up his monthly prescription. “This job is high pressure. There’s not much rest: you either have a client waiting for you to drop cargo or pick it up.”
