Digital Story from the Bawso Stories Project. In this story, seeing the bakery at St Fagans National Museum of History reminded Annie of how she used to make chapati, which was very expensive, for her children and for other children in need in Kenya. She would divide each piece as much as possible to feed everyone.

English transcript: When I saw it I just remember how I was baking for my children. Because I was a teacher. Students were coming to eat the chapati in my house. Back then it was for rich people, teachers are the only people and rich people they can cook that one, it was so expensive. Even if you smell from afar, most students from poor families will just pass by our house until you tell them come for the piece. Even for us when we were growing it was magic. Very expensive, the flour, yeah. I was rolling, I was doing the dough, yeah. I was counting – I have four children. These are for my four children. This is for to take to school for the children who need some food, and this is for the morning.

So this one reminded me of the dough balls. You should make sure to give out. So this one reminded me of how I was doing it. It gave me some memories. I can see those children now which I was giving because they were so poor. Now they are the people with so many big, big things back in Kenya. They didn’t go to secondary school. Their parents had no money. But they managed to do the business and they are very, very rich. So when I saw this, I was like, I have to cut it again until everyone will have a piece, a piece, a piece, a piece.