KENYANS PROVE MICHAEL JOSEPH RIGHT….

Michael Joseph once stated that kenyans had “peculiar habits“, and he must feel vindicated after the events of yester-night and early morning today!! I’m not here on behalf of him nor do i necessarily concur with his views, but the swahili have a saying, “Mgala muue na haki umpe”-translated it basically means “give a man his dues,friend or foe”…n i’m about to give Miachael Joseph his dues.

Early this morning the chicken came home to roost, kenyans have previously not failed to disappoint when it comes to acting in a peculiar manner, but the latest incident must surely take the price!!

Safaricom, kenya’s premier mobile service provider, was having a network upgrade that was to run from midnight yesterday to today at 6 a.m and an advert was duly placed in the papers to this effect. Now Safaricom had all the good intentions, informing their customers of this expected disruption in normal service, but then they didn’t know that they were giving kenyan’s a heads-up…Kenyans in what is a sign of normalcy to us, took to this with zest, i mean i have been bombarded with calls at what i’d consider ungodly hours in the name of FREE calls!!!! And in typical kenyan fashion again, this bit of news was translated to many other unwitting friends that they may partake of this early x-mas!!!

If you could just picture the glee on Michael Joseph’s face…and i forgot, the fact that i’m penning this piece,complaining about “free” calls, is in itself a peculiar habit indeed.

VAL’S….

So here we go again,…at least this one started off on the best possible note…a recap of how it all panns out will be forthcoming…stay tuned for the next episode…

OF FADS AND BANDWAGONS….

The cambridge online dictionary defines the word fad as “a tendency to like a style,activity or interest for a very short span of time”. It got me thinking of the kenya situation where we’ve had quite a few fads in the not so distant past. First came “afro-fusion”, the genre of music that got many waxing lyrical of how they were decolonising their minds and getting back to the motherland’s true musical exploits. Before you could even say mississippi,alas, the same persons had switched to another bandwagon…Hail the entry of “neo-soul”.

This seems to be the latest fad to have afflicted the kenyan populace…now from the leafy suburbs of Kileleshwa to the wanna-be lands of Buruburu we have folks declaring their undying interest in neo soul!! I should clarify that i have nothing against neo soul lovers at all, in fact i’m a neo soul fanatic, i only criticise those that do not see this engagement as a “labour of love”-that it takes dedication to come to terms with a new genre of music like this one.

That it is not enough to know that “Floetry” falls in the neo soul categorization, that one further needs to know that it is a group and not a person, not just a group but friends too….

I must give credence to the likes of Debbie Asila at Kiss fm, the poor girln had not much of a clue when she was slotted to host the reggae show on the station, but she now can proudly give anecdotes like how Movado is actually a true gangsta in lyfe and is just not singing about it….all this comes thru research…poor Seanice had no clue about sports but now hosts saturday sport with the likes of james wokabi at capital fm

what am i saying? Well if you want to seem to be in tune with the latest fads, get to know your thing, if not it will just be a fad