When the Iceland volcano with an unpronounceable name erupted last week, most Kenyans must have reacted in more or less the same way as they did when a massive earthquake hit Haiti in January. They viewed it as another sad phenomenon affecting a faraway land. Other than in pictures, most have never seen a volcano erupt anyway and, therefore, the Icelandic phenomenon was nothing more than a spectral enactment of one of nature's wonders.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — When Kenneth Maundu, general manager for Sunripe produce exporters, first heard about a volcano erupting in Iceland, he was excited. “I thought, ‘Oh, wow, a volcano,’ ” he said.
And then reality hit him in the face like a hurled tomato.
Because Kenya’s gourmet vegetable and cut-flower industry exports mainly to Europe, and because the cloud of volcanic ash has grounded flights to much of northern Europe since Thursday, its horticultural business has been waylaid as never before.
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