Every time time Eric Wanyoike and his younger sister use public transport together, somebody always shouts: “Mathee ebu shika huyo mtoto (woman please hold that child)!” You see, Eric is a 24-year-old trained journalist but only 3-feet tall – the height of a four-year-old boy. “There's a lot of ridicule and laughter. You get picked on all the time,” he says. In college female students used to pick him up in the air and make fun. He is the firstborn in a family of four and says living life in small body means putting up with constant ridicule, discrimination – and a whole raft of...
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