Quick learnings from Kenya:
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Omuhindis are scammers - one tried to sell me a Tissot PRX and a Tissot Gentleman for $1200 each with so much confidence. I asked the lady why there’s such a huge markup when both watches go for $700 and $800 respectively and she didn’t know what to say
. She made a pikachu face and as I walked out started going on about how she’ll give me a sweet discount if I come back next time. This was at Sarit center. She was probably a housewife who had no idea what she was selling. -
Kenyans wanapenda sherehe too much. Tables have dozens of liquor each going at thousands of shillings. Most of these clubs are also almost full everyday
. Mko na pesa sana nyinyi peasants. One thing I also noticed is that most women there are escorts. This was shocking to me. Dozens of women occupying tables sipping one drink all night preying on wababaz to get free drinks and maybe go home with them. Some would pretend to like you and then ambush you with “si utanipea 5k leo?”. I saw this mostly at BND, Oyster Bay Kilimani, Milan, Replay, and even Alchemist. Young women literally selling their wares every single day, just surveying the room to see who their next catch is. Wow, unbelievable. I could say that 95% of Nairobi women are prostitutes and I wouldn’t be far off. -
Nairobians want quick and easy money. Making conversation with people showed me how most Kenyans have zero understanding of what it takes to get ahead. They’re into easy schemes that don’t involve any ingenuity. Nobody seems to want it so bad without resulting to something shady. It’s like their brains have reached capacity and can only reach for things that have already been done. I couldn’t see any desire to think outside the box and try to do something daring. Everybody here does the same business because so and so does it and is super successful.
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Too many foreigners. No need to elaborate here but you guys have done sold your country. I’m pretty sure when I come back, Black Kenyans will have been relegated to the underclass as foreigners lord over locals. I’m still shocked that Black Kenyans have been able to hold onto government for so long. Biashara sio yenu lakini.
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Kenyans speak too much English. I don’t know why people no longer speak Kiswahili here. I had to tell waiters and security guards “Mimi najua Kiswahili peke yake” to get them to stop talking to me in their broken English.
Sayonara bitches!!
