KENYA,A COMICAL NATION part 1.

Part 1 of Kenya a comical nation

How I love being a Kenyan, by birth. Kenya is my land, my joy; my life and the dream of many African Citizens to visit my country, our country.Don’t greet me with derision and disbelief. Google it. Am not employing burlesque, its realism. Kenya’s capital city is Nairobi, and it the pearl of Kenya. Nairobi is Kenya and Kenya is Nairobi. People born from other parts of Kenya have a common goal, to come to Nairobi for greener pasture. Nairobi is the Canaan city for a Kenya citizen. If an event doesn’t happen in Nairobi, it probably never happened.

Anyway,

Kenya is one of the comical nations the world has ever had. It make me assume that the Mr. World as a being is always replacing his ribs as he sits somewhere observing intricacy of Kenyans with the wonder of a child. Kenya has an idea session on twitter mostly and partly facebook, though the latter is essentially for bragging purposes and the former ideas progress when an issue has gone viral. #KOT taps all creative ideas lurking in their minds and form either positive or negative critics on the trending matter in Kenya. Kenyans have a stimulus to creative Photoshop when an issue has gone viral on social media. Mateke Photoshop 
rendered me rib less. It was a well calculated trend. (Insert all other Photoshop that went viral in your mind)

If we lie to the government it's a felony, but if they lie to us its politics. The scope for major changes will be limited by political realities. The citizens of Kenya make deals with the political leaders during campaigns only to later complain to have the wrong leaders in the government. Really!!, I am always awed by this as we are the very people to vote them in. This is self con and ironical, leaving Mr. World aghast and astounded by our pleas. Let’s not be liberal but realistic here, how do you expect a leader who has spent a fortune to recover back? The only means is increasing their salaries. Remember the crave for power is business plan for most of them .Animus Dominandi.Stop this hullabaloo by being the change.Dont accept that Ksh200 or is it Ksh500, eitherway just vote leaders who are sufficient for our needs. Aaaah! We promise this all the time but come election time we annihilate the vowed promises we had four years in our hearts. We are later left with laden grief. Comical. Absurd. 

A nation united by terrorist divided by politics. Ludicrous. This was testified during the Westgate siege, and initially we were butchering each other online because of tyranny of number which led to tyranny of words. We take immense pride knowing where we came from but some Kenyans are tribal stereotypes and always whining, their lives are pathetic mix of dissatisfaction, fear, hate, unhappiness and have a don’t care attitude. I don’t say am an angel but my rebuttal is that I am not an active proselytizer of social: I can only convince society that it is necessary for it to rid itself of hate and its punishments and its mysticism.

Color discrimination is visible in Kenya. This is enormous and we tend to give attention to light skin as compared to dark skin. Some waiters and waitress can ascertain this. We perceive that white skin is manner from heaven and should be given priorities correlated to black skin. Am not being a hater but they are not complete human than us. Kindly Kenyans lets the relationship between us all be symmetric  rather than asymmetric as you tend to make it be. Serve each other as client and don’t be color biased. .Annihilate this vice completely. Remember Mr. World is watching .I vividly recall such an incident occurred to me in one of the mobile markets we have in Nairobi where they sell made in Kenya collections. I went to buy scandals since I love promoting my own and what I witnessed made me stand still and the action hit me in the solar plexus. I was being attended to by a vendor when he saw a white color he muted some words to his colleague and they rushed to attend to them, neglecting a willing buyer. Aberrant.

Many are a times we complain that our leaders are corrupted yet we as the public are the top spot. Preposterous I must say. I laugh when that six year old kid expect to be rewarded with few coins after sending her/him. Really? I don’t object that we give them some extrinsic reward but should come from one’s volition not a demand. That guard at the street of Nairobi who ushers in cars for parking expects some chai from you yet he is being paid to do that work. If you don’t give him he is left gossiping you how stingy you are but if you give him the chai he showers praises of you to his fellow guards and treats you better next time unlike the one who didn’t have the chai.This is a vice and it maims the productivity of a person if he is not given extrinsic reinforcement from the public. A woman ,a mother and a sister is proudly defending and acknowledging that her son can’t do homework without some payment. What a corrupted generation we are raising here. Very comical ahah!  

One thing Kenyans do rendering me rib less, is how they handle a boorish and unpalatable conversation  by pretending  to have an important call to attend to, Either nature or phone call. There is also a common slogan used by many Kenyans to end a conversation “otherwise”. This is frivolous and it’s to make the story tellers summarize his story in a limited time.

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. These words sound familiar?AHUH!! Why not put them into practice then. We are so judgmental, critical especially to the public figures. We hate so much on them. The reason behind this is we tend to hate what we love and would like to be yet we can we know deep down that we can never be that person.Just be you and dont judge others as no one is flawless. People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. Always know that the ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying.

Anyhow,anyway, Kenya is a friendly nation and a comical one. Najivunia kuwa mkenya.

 By

 Esther Wavinya