KENYAN AND CRAZY

OLX may be a difficult concept to digest for us Nairobians and this I can put good money on. The whole theory about some point in time you decide to sell off your furniture and buy new ones just doesn’t play well with us. This is especially when the question is, when do you think your furniture stops being good? In my years of study, or just observation, the line of reasoning used is we shall use it until it is embarrassing to use it anymore then ship it upcountry where the folks there will use it a lot more. I have seen this happen; the furniture I saw when I was born is decorating my grandma’s house. The furniture that I grew up with is decorating an out of town place my parents have so the whole theory of sell the stuff and get new stuff really doesn’t make sense. I have a few theories to probably try and explain this, my first and probably more relatable to is we do not grasp the theory of depreciation.   If you go to any company today, they depreciate some of their as...

I am currently trying to serve two masters by watching TV and writing this blog, it isn’t hard coz I’ve been doing this since I was born. When I grew up in a household where the TV was on almost throughout the day, when I was born it was a black and white TV and my mum never had to worry about me wandering away since I loved it. When I was older, they bought a VCR and a colour TV that spelled the end of any interaction with humans whenever it was on. After a while I developed one rile, learn from the TV and try to merge what the TV says with what mum says, if they kinda collide then I look for a middle ground. There is a reason why middle class Nairobian kinda sound alike and this is because we were raised mostly by televisions. Dad spends most of his time at work and you will only hear about 10 words from him a day ‘Son, take my brief case and   get me my slippers’ and the occasional ‘Hand me the remote’ or ‘go see who is at the door’. Mom on the other would either bend your ...