LIGHT FROM THE DESERT
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Zawadi Adan moves from her hometown in the North of the country to the busy city of Nairobi. Life hasn't been fair to her and she is just a fragile beauty seeking to have a good if not a better future. She hadn't seen the light at the of the end of the tunnel until her high school best friend offered her a place to stay as she starts her new life in a new world. But could it be any easier given that this is Nairobi?
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