KENYAN AND CRAZY

All hail Nairobians.   I hail from a diverse, complicated and highly volatile community called Nairobi. Our little city has a population of over three million people that represent every language group on the planet. You will find a member of every known earthly population right here on our very own red volcanic soil, probably except for Eskimos coz of the temperature. I have lived in Nairobi my whole life, all 25 years of it, and I am proud to say that I have experienced all of it. The slums, the high rises and suburbs all have some sort of wisdom to offer any person who ventures into this city hoping to make it big, or at least etch out a living. In those 25 years I have closely observed how the people here make it from one day to another and how the choices they make help shift the next generation to whole new ways of thinking or behaviour. Let’s start with the slums; the origin of the word slum is thought to be the Irish phrase ' S lom é (pron. s'lum ae) mea...