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Episode: A Kenyan barber who wields a sharpened shovel thrives on Africa’s social media craze
Description: In a sparse shack on the rural roadside in Kiambu, at the edge of metropolitan Nairobi, Safari Martins uses unconventional techniques to cut hair.
On the shack’s wooden walls hang a shovel, an iron, agricultural shears, and a wrench.
“I just use unconventional tools,” Martins says, smiling, moments before sliding a razor-sharp shovel edge across his client Ian Njenga’s head, lopping off a swath of hair in the first of a series of moves that yields a surprisingly clean haircut.
Unconventional tools are a hallmark for Martins, who is one of Kenya’s most recognizable barbers with around 1 million fo...