Kimani Mbugua reflects on his struggle with his mental illness. You can see him thinking back, there is a hint of pain in his eyes, but there is hope too.

“I love reading, especially on philosophy. I am writing a book myself, with a huge chunk of it being about philosophy,” he says. It is a Wednesday afternoon when Kimani welcomes the Sunday Magazine team to his Nairobi home.

He picked us up at a nearby bus stop and showed us to the quiet residential estate where he resides with his family.