I soon found out that there are few things people enjoy more than other people’s business, and everyone loves a wedding. Soon, men the newspaper’s correspondents at our bureaus around the country were being invited to weddings or having pictures and stories of weddings sent to us by couples who wanted their 15 minutes of fame. There were high society-type weddings, there were what today might be termed celebrity weddings and weddings of your everyday man and woman in the street. This was a grand wedding and was attended by President Daniel Moi as a friend of both the bride’s and groom’s families. As the President had attended, the picture and the story made the front page of the paper.

Source: The Star May 16, 2021 01:52 UTC