On Tuesday, September 8, in Kitengela, a bustling cosmopolitan township south of Nairobi, Archade Nshimirimana, 34, sat quietly on a bench outside his beauty parlour, staring into the distance as anxiety and uncertainty visibly gripped him.
For a man who spent over a decade building a life in Kenya, the government's crackdown on foreign nationals operating small businesses had suddenly cast his future in doubt.