[Fox] Heroin and its enduring allure
has sustained a massive international trade network
with no signs of slowing.
Global opium production increased by 65 percent
in 2017 alone.
But as geopolitical disruptions in the Middle East and Europe
have made traditional smuggling routes more difficult to navigate,
narco-traffickers are establishing new pathways to customers
and creating new consumers where they didn't exist before.
Enter East Africa.
[indistinct chatter]
♪ Doing this business is not good, man ♪
♪ Is not good ♪
♪ But let me tell you, my friend ♪
♪ I need to put some food in my table ♪
♪ At the end of the day ♪
[vocalizing]
I spent part of my childhood in Africa.
And it's always felt like...
a place with massive potential.
These wide-open spaces and brilliant people.
So, Kenya's never really felt like part of the heroin story to me.
It's not a failed state.
It doesn't match my idea of where heroin is trafficked.
But here it is all the same,
cutting a path through the heart of East Africa,
and upending the population in the process.
Did you feel as though, to be a teenager here,
there were opportunities?
[Mr. K] Being a teenager, my dad told me that you need to be a man.
So, like, you need to work hard in the slum to get out.
You know, on a daily basis now.
Something to put on your table. You need to work hard,
even if you are a teen.
I was born and raised in Kibera.
Not in an hospital, but inside a house like this.
Yeah. At daytime like this.
I remember, as a kid, going to slums like Kibera
and realizing that all of the comfort that felt totally normal for me at home
was like a different planet and that the people in these environments
would necessarily do anything they had to to put food on the table.
[Mr. K] So...
this is cargo.
[Fox] So, I see a powder. What am I looking at?
[Mr. K] Brown sugar.
[Fox] And what's brown sugar?
[Mr. K chuckles]
This is a type of heroin.
[Fox] Heroin and many related opiates are all derived from the opium poppy.
Extract the sap from the bulb and dry it.
Right away, you've got opium, a drug used in rituals and pain relief
since prehistoric times.
Then take that dried sap and cook it with certain chemicals.
That gives you morphine,
a drug with legitimate medical applications still used today.
But refine the morphine a little bit further,
and you get heroin, a drug two to four times more potent
and highly addictive,
with no recognized medical benefit.
So, you buy it wholesale, and then you have to cut it up
-so you can sell it retail? -[Mr. K] Yeah. Yeah.
That's worth more.
So, this is how we measure it.
-[Fox] Half a razor blade? -Yeah.
[Fox] And how much will you sell that little amount for?
[Mr. K] So this little amount, I'll sell it for 3,000.
Three thousand, Kenyan money. That is $30 US.
[Fox] Three thousand? How much did you pay for that amount?
I paid, like... 1,500 or 1,000.
Wow. So, you're more than doubling your money.
Yeah.
The average monthly income in Kibera is 25 to 40 US dollars,
so selling one shot of heroin for 30 is a game changer.
The first time that you did it and you got paid for it, how did you feel?
[Mr. K] I...
Ah.
[Fox laughs]
[Mr. K] I didn't even expect that, you know.
They gave me 50,000.
-Had you ever earned anything like that? -[Mr. K] No.
No, I've never.
[Fox] What can you buy with 50,000?
[Mr. K] Fifty thousand, I can...
I can buy a TV, a fridge,
a microwave.
You see, it's a good business.
[Fox] I think so often, we're tempted to...
consider the heroin trade as a big geopolitical issue.
A tangled mess.
I really wanted to understand the human face of this.
Who is the person who every day is making the decision
to put themselves and their family at risk
by trading in this most dangerous drug?
And why?
[Mr. K] This gives me power, like a big boost to my life.
Are most of your customers using here in Kenya?
[Mr. K] I sell to most Nigerians who are living in the big houses.
I sell to Chinese people...
To white people, to these rich children,
because not every people here in the slum can afford this.
People who are living just around.
This product is not that cheap, you know.
[Fox] No.
How much are we looking at here in terms of its worth when you sell it?
[Mr.K] When I sell this...
this can give me, like, 200,000.
-Yeah, but I need... pay. -Pay.
-[Mr. K] Yeah. -Do you pay first?
[Mr. K] I pay half of it, and then after selling,
I finish my product.
So this is my hustle in Nairobi.
[indistinct chatter]
[Fox] The side hustle is alive and well here,
and it's a cute name for a dire economic reality,
which is about making ends meet.
About surviving.
About keeping a roof over your head.
And if that takes three jobs, it takes three jobs.
And these days,
the booming heroin business is the go-to employer.
How big is the market worldwide?
[man] You know, if you check the World Drug Report--
it's one of the flagship publications
of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime--
you see that the most widely consumed drug in the world,
with 127 million consumers,
-is cannabis. -Cannabis.
But then you have, right after, you have cocaine and heroin,
and the problem with heroin is that the market is growing.
The first market is basically the market that the drug trafficking networks
were using, which is basically the middle lower class.
But that market is small.
It's about 2.7 percent in this part of the world.
Two-point-nine percent in the case of West Africa.
In the case of Europe, maybe it could be up to five percent.
The market that is growing is the middle upper class,
because the market is expensive, you know?
And it's very sophisticated, because let's not forget,
heroin, in economic terms, has a very strong inelasticity,
meaning, for example,
if you see that a consumer is consuming butter and margarine,
and you increase the price of margarine,
you start consuming more butter and vice versa.
In the case of heroin, when you increase the price...
-People pay it. -...people pay anyway,
and even they consume more.
Because when they increase the price, they do it on purpose
to create higher value in the market and more addiction.
So, at the beginning, they're users, and then,
over time, they become small-time distributors
among their friends, their family, even if they're not officially dealing.
Exactly.
[speaking foreign language]
[Fox] It's a strategy that makes sense from a business perspective,
if you ignore the fact that it's tearing through the youth of Kenya.
Fortunately, there are people, like politician Mo Ali,
ready to stand up and fight.
Mo Ali used to be a reporter focused on the drug problem.
And the more he covered it, the more he started throwing up his hands
and saying, "This is an emergency. This is a problem."
And that really resonated with the people
who were living with this in their communities every day.
And that got him elected to parliament.
We Africans are not used to drugs.
If you go back to our culture,
the only drug we know is our cold beer.
Traditional beer that people drink, and that's it.
We don't know about these things of injecting yourself and everything.
But you talk about drugs, like where I come from, Mombasa County.
I will call it a "small Colombia."
-Hmm. -Because the leaders there,
they will speak about everything, but not issues to do with drugs.
We've created, in Kenya, the ground, the platform
for there to be a flourishing drug trade now.
So, institutions have been weakened.
The police has been infiltrated.
Politicians have become players themselves.
It is killing our children. It is wiping out the generation,
but no one will stand up and talk about drugs.
-Mm-hmm. -Because they're being enriched?
[Ali] Because some of them...
are practicing it.
Some of them are helping the drug lords
to sell their drugs or to transit their drugs through this country.
It tells you something.
It means that the people who have power to fight this thing
-are involved, somehow. -[Namu] Mmm.
[Ali] If you go to Mombasa, it is a very interesting town.
It's a Mafia state.
[Fox] I think what I've learned in Nairobi is a good grounding.
I'll be really interested to see
whether Mombasa is really the belly of the beast.
Heroin doesn't come from Kenya.
In fact, 90 percent of the world's supply begins
in poppy fields thousands of miles away,
in South Central Asia, most notably, Afghanistan.
We have seen an unprecedented cycle in the production of heroin.
We are talking about 10,000 tons of heroin. That's a lot.
That's more than ever seen in the last 20 years of history.
Afghanistan is not the only producer, but it's the biggest producer.
Almost 30 percent of the Afghan GDP, gross domestic product,
has to do with poppy production.
It's the largest cash crop of Afghanistan.
It employs nearly 600,000 Afghans,
which is more than the Afghan National Security Forces.
It's a major element in the economy of Afghanistan.
It's also a major disrupter
of the rule of the law.
And so, we've spent, ourselves, over eight billion dollars in Afghanistan
to suppress the narcotics trade.
[man] Honestly, there's a huge consumer market
of heroin within the United States, and we're seeing more and more cases
involving heroin being smuggled into the United States from Africa.
Specifically, East Africa.
I'm surprised by it myself, because what I was told was the goal
is to smuggle heroin from Afghanistan
into Western Europe and Canada.
But our investigations are saying something a little bit different,
and it is significant.
In this world, in this economy around drugs,
do you think this part of the world has become the new path for heroin?
Yes. So it is a business choice to move things now to East Africa,
which has been called the "Smack Route."
So, the traditional route,
overland from Afghanistan through the Balkans,
is just too difficult now because it's being so heavily policed.
[Kobuthi] Precisely. Africa, it's a central place
for the rest of the world.
You can go to Europe through Africa easily.
-You can go to the Americas. -Crossroads of the world.
Criminal activities has a better environment
in Africa than it has in other places.
You can wheel and deal your way through these weak states
far much easier than you do
from other trade routes of heroin.
So, this is kind of adaptability. When your trade route gets blocked,
whether it's by war or by geopolitical developments,
you have to come up with an alternative.
And sometimes the alternative's better than the original.
Exactly. This thing, you realize, "Why'd we not thought about this earlier?"
[Fox] The immigration crisis has tightened border security throughout Europe,
while the ongoing war in Syria has made historical trafficking routes
through the Middle East too dangerous.
Basically, that part of the region became unstable,
and they didn't want to use that as a transshipment area.
So, they started thinking about East Africa,
where you had some growing economies,
and they were the perfect platform for that.
The move to the southern route for smuggling heroin
is really a perfect example of how interconnected
all of these networks are.
As a result of the wars in the Middle East,
the entire smuggling route had to change.
And it didn't come to an end.
It just shifted like air in a balloon.
They do market research, and they check
basically a combination of different elements.
One of them is political stability.
That's number one.
Is Kenya politically stable? Is a true democracy?
And normally...
a terrorist would select a fragile state.
But a narco-trafficker is selecting a very strong democracy.
So Kenya, Tanzania, is a perfect model.
So first, basically, first box, check.
Is the financial sector stable? Okay, check.
Is the business sector stable? Check.
Ports and modes of transportation, check.
They start sending shipments
all across the Swahili coast
and even actually East Africa,
and they start checking the porosity of the borders,
the way they can circumvent law enforcement, et cetera, et cetera.
[Fox] Port cities are a unique animal.
They're loud and bustling and chaotic,
and they represent incredible opportunity, and also incredible challenges,
for the people who come from all over the countryside
to try to make their fortune there.
Mombasa is East Africa's most important entry point
for goods entering Kenya and the rest of the continent.
You see a lot of product come and go, legal and illegal.
And for Mombasa,
it really is the epicenter of where heroin meets Africa.
[de Andres] Heroin is transshipped
through what we call the southern route of the Indian Ocean states.
By boat, by dhow, which are basically specific boats
which are normally used for fishing purposes.
A dhow looks like a sailing boat with a very large refrigerator,
but it's-- you cannot see it.
It's basically at the very end of the ship.
You know, at the very bottom.
Sort of the traditional Arabic sailing boat.
Basically that.
They try to expand it so they can even fit ice
and they can fit one ton of heroin.
So then, the dhow arrives in the port of Mombasa.
How does it get off the ship?
-These are fast boats that pick it up? -Yep.
[de Andres] The dhow does not need to get into the port.
Basically, it can stop in the--
at the beginning of the economic exclusive zone,
and then fast boats pick it up, and then they transship them.
[Fox] Offloading illegal heroin for a quick buck
is a risk a lot of locals are willing to take.
[Fox] Did you grow up fishing these waters?
[man in Swahili] Yeah. This is my workplace.
[in English] Is it dangerous to be a fisher?
[in Swahili] Fishing is not without dangers.
We've seen many things go in and out of the big boats.
They would ask for assistance to help them refuel their boats.
When they ask for your help,
they will pay a huge amount that lures you to compromise.
and you won't care about the risk of what you are doing.
So you halt fishing, help them, and go home with a day's meal.
The first time I helped them, I was with my late father.
They told us their boat couldn't go near the shore
because it carried illegal products.
So we helped them and received the cash.
[Fox in English] But, as is so often the case
when dealing with drug trafficking organizations,
things go smoothly until they don't.
[in Swahili] My friends, fellow fishermen,
would disappear, and only their boats would be found.
If you find a boat without the fisherman, your heart will be troubled.
[in English] Does that happen a lot to fishermen who help these guys out?
Yeah. Yeah.
[Fox in English] So, when you made the decision to work with the police,
were you hoping...
to find some of these friends of yours who'd gone missing?
[in Swahili] I decided to collaborate with the police to save fellow fishermen
who were literally being wiped out.
People would go to work and never come back.
[Fox in English] Despite the efforts of informers like Mr. R,
most of the heroin still makes it to shore,
as it starts its trip on the Smack Track across Africa.
The more conversations I have,
the more I realize how serious a problem heroin is in Kenya.
How do you tackle a drug problem this big?
[bird caws]
[Fox] An outdoor graveyard.
In 100 degree heat.
A hundred percent humidity.
Addicts, in the middle of using,
in the middle of suffering.
And you have aid workers who are there to provide services,
to meet the addicts in the moment that they're in,
instead of preaching to them about where they should be.
Aid workers that are sponsored
by a group called the Muslim Education & Welfare Association
go to the graveyard every day to offer addicts
whatever advice and healing they can.
[Fox] So, how many of these sites do you have in the city? Is this the only one?
[man] This one always has been the biggest one,
because police didn't want any other dens to be.
So, like, the other dens, they're being closed.
-This is the only den. -So, everyone knows they can meet up here?
Yeah, they can meet here. They can buy their stuffs here.
They could use it here. It's safe.
After you use, then you can go.
Was this always a safe injection site,
or is this something that your organization did?
This was not an injection site,
but we organized to them when we talk to them,
because you can't inject in front of people. Everyone will be shocked.
A better place is where there's a grave. People, they're afraid of the graves.
-[Fox] So it was unused land... -Yeah.
-[Fox] Unusable land. -Yeah.
[Fox] People started shooting up here, and you decided rather than move them...
[Bilali] Let's stay here.
And then, what is the work that you guys do here?
[Bilali] They normally come here every day in the morning,
needs to use the NSP.
-What's NSP? -NSP is the Needle and Syringe Program,
-where we exchange. We do exchange. -Clean needles?
Yeah, I give you clean, you give me the used one.
Before, when I used to be here, 12 years back,
forty percent of our clients used to have HIV.
-Forty percent? -Yeah, of our client
who were using needle because of sharing of needle and other things.
-[Fox] Did you ever use? -Yeah, I was an addict for ten years.
I was taking heroin, and now I'm clean for two years.
-Congratulations. That's not easy. -Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah, it's not easy. It's a process.
-You're a slave. It's a trap... -It's a trap.
...you know, and say, it's very bad. It's not good life, you know?
Because always, you are there. You don't have money.
You have to go to struggle, maybe to steal,
or you have to sell your body.
You see, you have already sold your soul, you know?
You have-- You are ready to do anything to get drugs.
-That is not good. -No.
Especial for us womens.
[Fox] Do you feel like the work that you do here,
with addicts, as a peer counselor, helps you to stay clean?
[Sheba] Yes, it's helped me to stay clean,
and it's also give me courage to be more strong.
It will, because when I see them,
I flashback where I was, you know.
And I...
An addict always stay an addict. We always say, "I'm a recovering addict,"
because this is a disease. It will never quit.
I think your work is incredible.
I'm still a baby in this process and in recovering.
I want to grow more and more,
and I'm just living for today. Just for today.
The United States has been dealing with heroin for decades.
Forever, it feels like.
We have after-school specials.
We have warning messages from our parents.
You know, we grow up alert to how dangerous this stuff is.
This is a new threat in Africa.
And when you're facing
a brand-new danger, you're way more vulnerable to it.
When you inject heroin,
the first thing that happens is it goes to your liver.
It's broken down into morphine.
After that, it crosses the blood-brain barrier,
attaches to the opiate receptors.
Now, what happens after that is you get a rush and a high.
A rush is just a few minutes of...
orgasmic pleasure.
And then the high...
is a sense of pleasure and warmth
that lasts for around four to six hours.
[Hurd] So, when someone takes heroin,
it also, indirectly, elevates dopamine as many drugs of abuse.
And that combination produces this, you know, intense euphoria.
[Hassan] After four to six hours, the addict goes into withdrawal
because the body has gotten used to the opioid neurotransmitter.
[Hurd] Opioids tap into our pain pathways in the brain.
So, they alleviate both physical pain and emotional pain.
And when you're not on the opioids, you're feeling every single pain.
So, you wanna take the drug again.
And it's that cycle to...
alleviate the pain.
It's that cycle to get back that high.
It's that cycle, the depression,
the despair that people feel when they're not on heroin.
When you're addicted, it just leads to that compulsive behavior
to take the drug again and again and again, and they're hooked.
[Fox] I love the long road and the long approach you're taking,
'cause I think sometimes there's the instinct to go in and say,
"You need to quit right now, cold turkey. Tomorrow, no heroin.
I want you to get a job, go out and be a functioning member of society."
-But healing takes longer than that. -Yeah.
You know, these people they're being isolated by family,
community, police.
So, we are the only people who can listen to them.
In Kenya, the coastal part of Kenya
is the region that is most affected by drug use,
and Mombasa is the epicenter of the problem.
Because this thing is not decriminalized, it fetches a lot of money.
And it's very easy to corrupt airport officials,
to corrupt port officials,
and it gives us an incentive for people to go and get this.
But I think we are becoming a country of users.
[de Andres] Another indicator a narco-trafficker always check
is the IT platform.
Is it stable? Is it strong? Is it interconnected?
So, the IT platform of a country like Kenya
is one of the best in Africa and one of the best in the world.
Same thing in Tanzania. Check, the IT platform.
So, it means, "Can I communicate with a triangular system
of me being in Afghanistan, with a middle person being in Sri Lanka,
with the end person being in Mombasa?"
Yeah, you can communicate very well because, you know, basically,
the operators are multinational.
So, in terms of money flows,
they use more and more in the dark web, deep web,
and the hawala networks.
[Fox] Halawa is a form of underground banking,
where money is moved between dealers around the world via telephone or fax.
It's cheap, fast, anonymous, and free of regulation.
It works like this:
Buyer contacts seller, price is determined.
Buyer then gives money to a third party, the hawaladar.
That hawaladar contacts another hawaladar in his network,
located near the seller.
That person pays the seller.
Once paid, the seller then contacts his courier to deliver the shipment.
Easy to do, hard to trace.
The same techniques that you're talking about,
the moving of money by hawala networks that are basically untraceable,
where you drop money off at this corner shop in Pakistan,
and somebody else picks up money at this corner shop in Kenya,
and there's no way for international bankers to trace it,
that is exactly the same technique we used to see in counterterrorism.
And just like with international counterterrorism efforts,
one impediment to solving the issue is jurisdiction.
Local officials in every part of the world
are reluctant to acknowledge the problem exists in their house.
The impression in the media is that there are large shipments of heroin
that come through the port here in Mombasa,
and... some stays here,
but most travels on to other African countries, to Europe.
That is perception. That is perception.
-It's not true? -It's not true.
So, the drugs that you're intercepting,
they-- that-- they are just for local use?
Very small, very small quantity.
So, you feel like it's not as big a problem as people think?
That's public perception
and the creation of media.
-[Fox] So, fake news. -[Lt. Ali] Yes.
[Fox] Do you feel hopeful that you will be able to make a dent
in this problem in Mombasa, or is it just too big?
No, no, no, we are carrying out progressive work.
Yes. We have tremendously reduced the rate of consumption.
How much?
By 95%.
By 95%?
-Yes. -Wow. So...
do you think you'll ever get to a drug-free Mombasa?
God willing.
Well, it sounds like you have things very under control.
[Lt. Ali] Very much under control.
[Fox] The reality is that the situation
is not under control at all.
And that was made clear in a recent interview
with the Kenyan president,
in effect, announcing a policy of zero tolerance.
And I have already given an order that any or all foreigners
who arrive as suspected of having engaged in issues to deal with drug trafficking
be deported, and they go back to their own countries
and do their business there. They don't need to be here.
President Uhuru Kenyatta today
led a team of government officials in witnessing the destruction
of the 370 kilograms of drugs impounded in Mombasa last month.
Over 300 kilograms of heroin, valued at 1.1 billion shillings,
were blown up and sank within Kenya's territorial waters.
[in Swahili] Some of the greatest work I've done was getting that boat blown up.
I did that.
[Fox in English] I'm looking around right now. It's pitch black.
There's no one here to help you if you get in trouble.
Are you scared they find out what you're doing
and hurt you while you're out here?
[in Swahili] I have to be very cautious. If I don't, I'll be in trouble.
[in English] Do they pay you?
[in Swahili] No, I do not get paid for doing this.
Can my friends be found? Were they lost? What happened?
I want to see those people responsible for their disappearances arrested.
[Fox in English] Blowing up one boat, while dramatic,
is little more than a publicity stunt.
The real story lies in distribution.
It lies in the bellies of thousands of human drug mules.
Narco-traffickers here call them "containers":
impoverished people enticed to risk their lives,
transporting heroin in their stomachs to destinations around the world.
One day, one of my friends say, "Hey, Salim. There's a trip from Tanzania.
Would you go to Zan and take stuff and come in with it?"
I say, "I could go, but I've never tried."
He say, "Yeah, we can make an example for you before you go."
He said, "Yeah, you can take glucose."
-You know glucose? -Mm-hmm. Like the sugar?
Yeah, sugar.
They say this is good for you because even if you get problem, you--
it burst in you, you cannot die, you know? Because it's glucose.
Then they put it, the bullet, like this.
About five grams.
They put it, and they put the Sellotape. And it's Sellotaped.
They put it nice Sellotape.
They gave me about nine bullet the first time.
They put a bucket like this, full of ice cream.
So, the first time, it was a little bit, you know...
-[Fox] Caught in your throat? -...hurting, yeah.
Then after three minutes, I take another one.
The first time that you had the real heroin in your stomach...
I was in Tanzania, coming from Dar es-Salaam to Mombasa.
How often were you doing this?
I did this about...
two to three trips first from Tanzania.
Then I get another cartel from Kenya to Seychelles.
Had you been on an airplane before?
No, it was my first time.
-Your first time on an airplane... -From Nairobi...
-...you had heroin in your stomach. -Yeah, to Seychelles.
And then, when you would arrive, you would meet the buyer at the airport?
Not the buyer.
-The people-- The cartel from here. -Ah.
-[Fox] Their guy there. -Yeah. You only--
Your job is only to carry.
By that time, they were-- we were giving us...
about a kilo.
Every 100 grams, he give you $1,000.
So, I took about, I remember, 800 grams...
from Nairobi to my...
-And-- -He gave me $8,000.
It was amazing at that time. I've never in my life--
I haven't catch a lot of money like that.
Do you remember what you did with it?
Yeah.
I get ladies, casinos,
wearing good clothes, you know?
[Fox] But the high life didn't last.
Stranded in South Africa after a mule trip,
Salim turned to robbery to support himself
until an altercation with the police cost him his leg.
Then he returned to Kenya,
determined to turn his life around.
-Do you feel like you have paid? -Yeah.
-You're all done, you're all paid up? -Yeah.
-Do you get to start a new life now? -Yeah. I wanted to start a new life.
Got two years in methadone.
-I'm not inject-- -Two years, no heroin?
No, I'm not injecting again. I'm not smoking again.
Uh, uh...
Cocktail. I don't sniff again.
-It's a new life. -Yeah.
Like your name, Salim,
-it means new, right? -Yeah.
-Alhamdulillah. -Alhamdulillah.
Yeah.
[Fox] When I think about what it takes to...
rent your body out as a container
for this valuable poison...
knowing that you will die if there was a miscalculation...
this is Russian roulette.
What does it take?
Who would do that?
And then I think about my daughter, and I realize
the answer is anyone might do that
if it's the only way they can provide for and protect their family.
That's the kind of desperation
that these narco-traffickers are exploiting.
It really makes you realize the...
the darkness and the evil that we're fighting here.
And the fact that the war on drugs,
for decade after decade, has not made a dent.
In fact, the problem's worse than ever.
[man, distorted] So good of those who give me this work,
put for me a passport and a visa.
And they told me, today I'm going to Nairobi.
In Nairobi, I take a plane to Doha.
Doha to Guangzhou, China.
When I am done, I will be paid $100,000.
[Mr. K] ♪ Born in the ghetto ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ Raised in the ghetto ♪
♪ I was raised in the ghetto ♪
♪ But I'm doing this shit ♪
♪ Oh, my God ♪
♪ Please forgive me ♪
[vocalizing]
[Mr. K] This is not my goal. This is not my career.
This is not my dream, you know.
[Fox] What's your dream?
[Mr. K] My dream...
I want to be a very big musician.
-Oh, yeah? -Yeah.
-How-- -To record in a nice studio...
-Yeah? -...you need money.
-[Fox] You do. -Yeah.
[Mr. K] Yeah. So, this deal, they are given by these big people.
The product arrived in Mombasa with these big ships.
I get my order from my big man there in Mombasa,
and then I do my shit.
This is a cocktail mixed with ganja.
[Fox] It's an art form.
And do you sell those ready-made?
-[Mr. K] Yeah. -Yeah.
[Mr. K] Even most of the people like the ready-made.
[Fox] Yeah.
I call it a "cocktail brown sugar,"
with the smoking paper.
[Fox] It's amazing when you arrive here in Kibera.
It's right in the middle of Nairobi, and all the buildings
and roads and golf courses fall away,
and you are in this completely different world.
[Mr. K] Even me, you see those golf things...
I've never stepped there.
I am just in the slums, you know? We never experience those types of things.
That's too expensive for us.
It motivate me, like, one day, one day,
I'll be there, you know?
If I work hard for my good money,
I'll be there, you know, with my family, playing golf.
-[Fox] Playing golf? -Yeah.
[Fox] One day?
One day.
Let's call that day a new day.
-A new day. -Yeah.
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