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A letter from Kenyans Abroad - by mkawasi mcharo-Hall
Rank: Elder Joined: 4/9/2008 Posts: 2,824
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Wow! someone has been put in
Wow! someone has been put in their place. They hate diaspora guys because they haven't got a chance to come. He can't even pass a visa interview anyway.
That's from a diaspora guy!!! Are these the interviews where they had to stripe? How can one be proud of that?? Bure kabisa!!! When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/9/2011 Posts: 730 Location: Nairobi
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i read a lot of slightly disguised jealousy in many of the comments in the two blog posts Biko and Mkwasi. Live and let live our goals are best achieved indirectly
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/24/2010 Posts: 637 Location: Nairobi
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Mon, 08/26/2013 08:27PM -0400 #5 M'Ibara's picture Regina Njogu Good piece Mkawasi. What annoys me is that Kenyans at home are ever so eager to ask for and receive our dollars, euross and yens, but then trash the very jobs we do to earn the mulla. As for creating time for us, when they visit us abroad, God forbid if you asked them to take a taxi from the airport coz you are busy at work, they would mobilize the whole village elders to pronounce a curse on you!. Fair is fair - if I visit Kenya and you have no time for me, you dare not ask me to send you that invitation letter or host you when you visit coz I will not have time for you either! As for the biting cold, there is no need to pity us for it. We are used to it!. and by the way, the sun does also shine in Northern Ireland, US and all of Europe!!! What this character does not know is that guys with real chums are right here in Kenya and they are many for that matter.Having a return air ticket and some little cash to spend locally should not make you think you have arrived. My Case;
1.Twice in the last two years an Uncle of mine and his family visited from US to attend a burial.I arranged for airport pick up,and provided accommodation on arrival and a car which was used for 3 weeks as i made alternative travel arrangements for my self and family.That car was not serviced on return coz these peeps thought they were doing me a favor by using my car.
2.On the few occasions i have had a chance to visit the west on my employers sponsorship,I ensure i strictly stay in a hotel just to avoid the above kind of stupid talk.
3.Yes some of us are happy here, we cant all ship out of our country just because life is nice on the other side.The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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You must be very slow "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Boss, si uko nyuma! Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” ― Rashi
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masukuma wrote:he has not addressed the issue of... My ten comments: 1. Mkawasi is a 'she' 2. I knew most people would get stuck on that 'stinking' part. 3. Must have hit a nerve, maybe in the armpit? 4. I am surprised people claim they didn't read her long rant, yet somehow read the stinky part buried in the nth paragraph 5. It is said that if you want to hide something from a Kenyan, put it in a book...need I say more? 6. Biko held up a mirror to the collective reality that we call, Kenyan. 7. Mkawasi did the same. 8. Both tell some inconvenient truths that we would prefer not to confront. 9. Both say, 'this is what we, Kenyans, are.' 10. Get over it. "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)
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masukuma wrote:as someone who has worked abroad I am with the Diasporans on accents. its true! to us HEART, HURT, HAT, HUT all sound the same! some Americans would think you are talking about HOT. HEARD, HARD, HERD, HAD to us all sound the same and to outsiders they are not. COAT and COURT as well. so the accent we accuse them of having is actually the ability to learn how to communicate... WATER being pronounced as WARRRER. TWITTER as TWIRRA, BETTY as BERRRY e.t.c. so it happens.
The one thing that I don't support is the 'forgetting to speak' a local dialect or complaining on the 'stench' of us africans. Even us town folk get the same experience when we go upcountry. We get our grandparents and relatives who have a smoky odour or something else of they are cattle farmers. We don't complain. we hug them and enjoy. When it is required that you go to the loo and you find its a pit latrine located at a lonely corner of the shamba with offcuts used as walls (not to mention rays of sunlight that beam through the intersections). WE DON'T ZUSHA - we simply do our business and go!! When you are stuck in a matt from Nyandarua you get whiffs of all types of smells but olfactory fatigue steps in to sort you out! we don't complain! we understand that THIS IS KENYA! M'boss, you mean Nyandaruans are dirty!  We demand an apology! ABK!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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radio wrote:masukuma wrote:as someone who has worked abroad I am with the Diasporans on accents. its true! to us HEART, HURT, HAT, HUT all sound the same! some Americans would think you are talking about HOT. HEARD, HARD, HERD, HAD to us all sound the same and to outsiders they are not. COAT and COURT as well. so the accent we accuse them of having is actually the ability to learn how to communicate... WATER being pronounced as WARRRER. TWITTER as TWIRRA, BETTY as BERRRY e.t.c. so it happens.
The one thing that I don't support is the 'forgetting to speak' a local dialect or complaining on the 'stench' of us africans. Even us town folk get the same experience when we go upcountry. We get our grandparents and relatives who have a smoky odour or something else of they are cattle farmers. We don't complain. we hug them and enjoy. When it is required that you go to the loo and you find its a pit latrine located at a lonely corner of the shamba with offcuts used as walls (not to mention rays of sunlight that beam through the intersections). WE DON'T ZUSHA - we simply do our business and go!! When you are stuck in a matt from Nyandarua you get whiffs of all types of smells but olfactory fatigue steps in to sort you out! we don't complain! we understand that THIS IS KENYA! M'boss, you mean Nyandaruans are dirty! We demand an apology! ABK! it was just a random shags I picked..... tuliza boli and enjoy. All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/26/2011 Posts: 759
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Atleast we all agree, Kenyans in Kenya smell like goats!
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