In the last few weeks, I have been called “Mzungu” (“white man”), “Barack,” and “Christiano Obama,” an amalgam of the Manchester United star and the new U.S. president. I am spending the month of January working in Kenya and Uganda for an organization called Village Enterprise Fund. VEF provides business training and micro-grants to aspiring entrepreneurs in East Africa, so that they might start small businesses to support themselves and their families.
