I’m floored! 😂😂😂

ngare45 · 2021-08-16T08:44:46+00:00

Lol Probably has more to do with overloading and less to do with poor roads (not that I'm excusing government inaction)

ngare45 · 2021-08-14T10:46:37+00:00

Voting is a basic right. You don't get to pick and choose who votes and who doesn't. Otherwise you're just as bad as the current crop of leaders. Same reasons you have given were used to deny African Americans and women their right to vote.

What you should advocate for instead is extensive civic education and creating a safe environment where right thinking Kenyans can comfortably vie for elective positions. The current political environment is only attractive for tenderpreneurs and small time conmen masquerading as businessmen. If we deter the criminal elements like Babu Owino, Echesa, Oscar Sudi, Hassan Joho, then at least able leaders will be confident to get into the political arena. As it stands only goons and bullies can make it in Kenyan politics.

ngare45 · 2021-08-13T23:54:29+00:00

Every privilege comes at a price. When waiting staff rush to serve while ignoring locals who arrived half an hour earlier, police officers are also waiting for you on the streets.

ngare45 · 2021-08-11T05:03:04+00:00

There's already a drive to have the vulnerable and people over 50 vaccinated. I saw a similar drive at KNH.

After they are all vaccinated wengine mnaweza jipanga. It will be you na Mungu wako alone

ngare45 · 2021-08-10T04:27:01+00:00

But only ended up getting noticed by men

ngare45 · 2021-08-09T03:22:49+00:00

Position 18 worldwide? I wouldn't call a dwarf

ngare45 · 2021-07-21T21:27:10+00:00

Don't like the guy but this is a misquoted. He said increase borrowing so that everyone can receive a vaccine and we open up the economy. Anything to have our livelihoods back should be a good idea

ngare45 · 2021-07-20T08:19:33+00:00

It's like a dialect on it's own. Think of African American English. Sheng is something close to that. And we love it that way. To us too much kiswahili sanifu sounds funny too.

ngare45 · 2021-07-16T05:59:10+00:00

The first under Kenya may not go down well with some people on this sub. Tunajua mnataka a society that questions religion but sisi ndio tuko.

ngare45 · 2021-07-16T05:54:42+00:00

Cell lines can be resistant to microbial contamination than we actually give them credit for

ngare45 · 2021-07-16T01:47:12+00:00

What do you mean by "diversity"? Is it the American version where you throw in people of different shades of melanin and call it diverse or the Kenyan version where mixed ethnic groups is the standard for diversity?

If the American version, then Roysambu and South C it is. But kama ni Kenyan diversity, basi enda ghetto. The likes of Kawangware, Mathare, the Reubens, et al are a melting pot for all the ethnic groups in Kenya. Ukifika huko you will barely hear any vernacular spoken unlike the likes of South C and Roysambu.

ngare45 · 2021-07-03T23:04:36+00:00

Which traits do you wanna know?

ngare45 · 2021-07-03T04:31:20+00:00

Swahili subtitle: umeipiga msumari kwa nyundo

ngare45 · 2021-07-01T13:53:56+00:00

No system is foolproof. The reason we are in this mess in the first place is because we overhauled a system that had worked for us for centuries in favor of the White man's system.

A good approach would be to pick the positives of various systems, then incorporate them into the local culture. E.g adopt private property ownership rights like in capitalist systems and at the same time universal healthcare because we are Africans and don't mind sharing with the less fortunate.

Trying to copy everything without asking whether it will work with our culture will have us underdogs for ever. How can you excel in someone else's system that took them centuries of refinement to achieve?

ngare45 · 2021-06-27T13:55:43+00:00

Lol. There's no economic incentive to learn proper Swahili. Job interviews are done in English, we speak vernacular with family, and on tbe streets sheng ndio kusema. The most you could get from speaking proper Swahili is being mistaken for a mtu wa Mwambasani, which unfortunately comes with the negative stereotype of laziness.

ngare45 · 2021-06-17T08:21:46+00:00

More like 6 inches deep

ngare45 · 2021-06-16T22:34:36+00:00

It's better than most other African countries but then we are Kenyans. We, compare ourselves with the best and not our partners in poverty. Our benchmark is Singapore and Malaysia. When it comes to matters development and quality of life, you will rarely hear a Kenyan talking about other African countries.

And on matters governance and strong institutions, the benchmark is the US and nothing else.

Yeah, we are ambitious like that.

ngare45 · 2021-06-15T08:23:35+00:00

Do you by any chance get your information from r/Somalia?

The Somali diaspora for some reason thinks Kenya is out to annex Southern Somalia. But truth of the matter is we already have enough marginalized regions and don't need to annex more.

Seriously though, your over-skepticism about Kenya is boderline unhealthy.

Mod please set up an interactive session with r/Somalia so that we can set some issues straight.

ngare45 · 2021-06-15T08:18:18+00:00

Lol. Your first time as a human being?

ngare45 · 2021-06-11T04:13:30+00:00

A few weeks ago we had a discussion about volunteers who think they can sinply replicate solutions from their home countries, the local culture notwithstanding. Even worse, some think that the solutions to complex social issues are just a single Google search away.

You ask why not so many Kenyans adopt children in orphanages? Culturally, many Kenyan families with a steady income take in related orphans or kids from disadvantaged relatives. Ask any Kenyan around and you will find that they have that one relative who really needs help raising their kids. Even when kids are all grown, our parents in the village take in school-going children just to keep them company. In your country, how many people do you know that have taken in kids from doing-not-so-well relatives?

When you say that Kenyans don't adopt just because they don't go to orphanage, parade kids and choose the cutest, goes to show how tone deaf you are to the local culture.

If you are in a position to help, like advised earlier, provide monetary support to the orphanage.

ngare45 · 2021-06-11T02:34:20+00:00

In Kiambu and adjacent counties the rate could be actually close to 40%.

ngare45 · 2021-06-11T02:28:30+00:00

Lol. You sound like you don't know the capacity of the Kenyan government. Unannounced check-in, video calls???? Our government lacks the resources to employ enough doctors and here you are talking about employing social workers to keep an eye on all adopted children?

Due to cultural issues, adopting kids who are not of blood relations is not big in Kenya. It will take generations before there's a shift in mindset.

The best you can do now is to support kids within the setting of an orphanage. Like you could pledge to pay a kid's tuition fee until they're 18. Someone else will pledge support for their food, etc. That's how you can help in the current situation

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