Ah the dignity and purity of the African woman.
Amen my negro hating brother . AMEN!
Ghasia
Bullshit! Beach boys have been there for as long as European pensioners have been coming to our coast. It’s like going to Sj and acting all surprised that there are hoes selling pussy all over the place…
Nice one Mark .Nikuandikie hekaya kama mbili hivi buda ? tuone kama unaweza ninukishia kitunguu
:D:D
Hekaya ikuje
Seconded.
I remember the first time the fact that child prostitution exists hit me, I was at a beach hotel called Maria Posa one saturday afternoon pow wowing , then I saw this OLD man couldnt be less than 70, with 2 girls who couldnt have been 12 in their frilly sunday best dresses headed to the room, at first I had flashbacks of some notice I saw at a hotel in Kilifi some years back, no children allowed ! I was alarmed as reality dawned on me that this guka was taking these 2 girls to his room. I excused myself and went looking for the owner of the place an Italian woman who rocked a parrot on her shoulder that spoke Italian, when I told her she didnt seem alarmed but I guess to appease me who was now almost in tears, she followed up and the kids left back to the beachfront to look for another paedophile to meet the quotas set by their parents.
The dynamics can only be understood with time, people at the Coast are extremely poor, you dont know poverty until you see it at the Coast. So bad is it that if you want to turn a tshirt into a rag, your elderly worker will beg you for the Tshirt. There are only two industries in Malindi, prostitution,drugs and fishing/tourist related activities. This is so serious that off season some shops close down and wait for the next season because locals cant afford much of what is on offer.The economy is based on tourism. The weird thing is that majority of the women in sex industry are from Bara, many are university students, others are sex workers from all over the country. If you see the numbers you realise how dispossesed young people including men are in this country.
The other prostitution related industry is that of witchcraft, sorcerers with all kinds of portions come to Malindi during tourism season as do their brokers. They charge in dollars and come from as far as Sumbawanga. Mijikenda as a people live i crushing poverty. Poverty is the ultimate dehumanizer. At age 14 many girls who’ve never prostituted themselves have 3 children. For me it was a real culture shock to come to grips with how much poverty can ravage an entire group. Why should you go to school when your future depends on tourism? Wouldnt you rather be a beach boy learn foreign languages or start learning how to fish- did you know that many baharias are gay and they compel these boys to sleep with them so that they can be taught how to fish. If youve never been poor dont judge this people who sell their kids. Many beachboys or male/female prostitutes are also crack whores/heroine whores.They meet an Italian who introduces and gets them hooked on drugs, so they prostitute because theyre junkies. Mambo ni mengi ,I cant explain to you all of it. All I can say is that I respect those people a great deal. They are real survivors. Kweli nilielewa MRC when they say Pwani sio Kenya. Its all too easy to patronise a people till you live among them.
You respect poor prostitutes and whores for living in poverty and being prostiturws and whores…well of course you do this is kenya
Nobody respect prostitutes punk!
Hiyo jua ya huko ulisurvive Aje. It’s a bitch
Got used to it. Tena was working outdoors sana. But there is an endless supply of kungurus especially when the mzungus leave for Europe and compe is down:p
…so you mix your swimmers with caucasian ones…
Commercial sex workers - the politically correct name are human beings too and they have dignity like every other human being. Prostitution is men paying to rape women and children who are poor and dispossessed. The real culprits in prostitution are not the poor women and children caught up in the nightmare of selling sex to strangers so that they can eat and make a livelihood to pay fees for their children. The culprits that deserve your scorn are the men who pay to rape women and children. Do you want to look down at someone? Have contempt for someone , have contempt for your gender, the male gender that sees women and children’s sexuality as a commodity they can buy. If you have any humanity left in you before you pontificate about those bitches and those whores and those prostitutes. Imagine a situation where you have to let people you dont know from a can of paint to fuck you for x number of hours a day, say you have 30 clients a day or night, who on earth wants that type of work unless its purely for the money or to support a drug habit? Have you read the book Tweak by Nic Sheff? He wasnt a gay man but he would let men fuck him so that he could buy drugs yet he was from a well to do family. Does that make him an animal or a worthless,immoral piece of shit? No! So take your sanctimonious self and get some perspective. You dont get to label an entire group of people after a 2 week holiday or sex tourism tryst.
When you are a visitor you can be condescending and call these people all kinds of names, but there is more than meets the eye. Yes, nobody sees the need for school because everyone around them who made it in life didnt make it because they went to school. That doesnt mean they are lazy dumbos, they learn upto 10 foreign languages never having stepped in any class or school for it, to me that means these people are damn brilliant. Their culture as with many other cultures where people are poor , get kids very early and the women walk miles to fetch firewood and water meaning they’re damn hardworking. If a girl of 14 has 3 kids already, whats so wrong with parents selling their kids for food? Btw the people who do all these things are a minority ,most mijikendas are hard working people who just want a better life for themselves and their offspring. They are very decent even in the way they dress, theyre very polite and respectful, and they are survivors inspite all their hardships they keep going and they do it with optimism and a smile. Dont imagine that because you went on holiday there for 2 weeks you’re now an authority on those crazy Coastal people. This community like every other has its strengths and weaknesses. So yes I do respect the people of the sleepy resort town of Malindi , be they wabara who’ve been naturalised or the giriama, the Pokomo , the Arabs at Mambrui or Farza or Manda or the Banjuni or the Swahili. I respect the baharia who spend their entire lives at sea and can survive a storm better than any learned person. I respect the fact that these people have respect for elders and even have a greeting purely for elders Shikamoo while learned and enlightened Nairobians havent the slightest courtesy even for their own parents let alone elders. If you think you’re sophisticated or moral enough to hold your nose up at these people, Id like to share with you a level of enlightment you’re unlikely to achieve in person in this lifetime, its illustrated by by the prolific writer Paulo Coelho , the literary maestro.
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.
As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”
The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”
The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”
Even their kids who they work to feed? Even the people they support from the proceeds of prostitution? If you engage the services of a ‘prostitute’ the real prostitute is you the man, because you have a choice, the ‘prostitute’ is doing this to survive. Why are you who feels that nobody respects prostitutes doing it? Because you want to and it makes you feel you can purchase a sacred part of another humanbeing. You then lack the moral authority to judge or look down at prostitutes because you have a choice to engage in this vice they do not. You can not dehumanise another humanbeing because you have the money to pay to rape them and theyve got to go along to get that money because theyre dispossesed. This is like me having a fetish of punching pple so I go downtown and ask a beggar if I can punch him then I will give him 500 bob. Then I come and tell you that beggars deserve respect because they’ll allow me to punch them so that they can get 500 bob. Who is more/less worthy of respect in that scenario? The beggar? I think not. Even Jesus grandmother was a prostitute, Rahab, who are you to look down at them? Wewe ni nani?
