Mike Njenga is a Kenyan journalist who has worked for the country's largest media outlet. His path to becoming a well-known face on Kenyan television screens was not an easy one. He was so broke at one point that he was embarrassed. In an interview, he described how a priest made hurtful remarks about him because of his predicament. The insults were so terrible that he has yet to fail that humiliation.
"A few years ago, I was performing at a certain church. I used to do sound for that specific church and would sometimes sleep at city hall on days when we had meetings there. I was completely bankrupt. I went to my cousin's house one Sunday and borrowed open shoes.
The news analyst then described how the pastor contacted him and other pastors and yelled at them for not dressing appropriately while on the pulpit. He went on to explain that several of them were wearing open shoes, as if they were walking down the beach. What hurt even more was that he had borrowed money to attend to church that day, and it wasn't his intention to dress poorly; he simply didn't have the money.