When you leave your house, in the city, to go home ( that famous line from Sitawa), back to where grandma resides, customs change. The well-adjusted Kenyan would never walk into their grandmother’s house with empty hands. That is just rude. One has to come bearing gifts. Until a few years ago, I would…
Tag: shags
Sustainable Green Weddings
My research findings for a magazine article on extravagant wedding ceremonies had me floored. Wealthy Kenyans are supposedly sinking Kshs 40 billion annually into the wedding industry. The country earns roughly the same amount from flower exports to Europe. Makes one wonder why we need foreign aid? But, I cannot dictate how other people spend…
Dying To Go Shags
The word shags is one of those few slang words that has endured from the 80s. It really should be in the sheng graveyard alongside words like Sonyi and Wuch from its era. I guess it holds a lot of sentimental value for many Kenyans. Shags is where the grandparents live, where your parents refuse…