Torture messed up Double OO mental health. He was trying so much to cope. Those digital essays were a piece of art. He would start with Lula DaSilva of Brazil and end up with Dead Kimathi wa Ciuri. Then there was Ngugi wa Thiongo poetry..dagitari Matemo. Then Kirgit mwenye the kikuyu guy from Boston area..My friend Late Wa Wambui..Njamlik was a serious troll.he tried to troll me but I harrased him till he left online community for good..there wad Dengu from Githunguri but grew up in Nairobi..then there was Mwari wa Mugo married to Lunje poet..Papaf the professor wa agriculture na hydrologist.hydrologic..
Like you said life in Hamelika is fast paced mpaka unasahau watu wenu..in the last 2 years I had been kenya every year my dad was ailing and passed away last year. I was able to connect with cousins and other relatives I have not seen for over 3 decades. I go so emotional just being around my relatives. At the end of the day family is what matters.
About prostitution in a society with 70% youth unemployment young women will look for men with means to leeches off. I usually Block about 10 girls weekly in my Facebook page. All in my messenger half naked saying hi ..Ile gonorrhea iko kenya may kill a horse. I cannot trust a kenyan woman. I like dealing with African Americans at least the professional ones are just looking for good sex and company. They have their own everything
Those long, winding Double O tichitals were epic
Don't forget how he would name drop the so-called liberation heros. The Kamoji Wachiras.. the Makhan Singhs.... the Micere Mugos.. the Edward Oyugis ... the Willy Mutungas...the...
That was years before Mutunga became CJ. After the gay Mutunga's ascension, he did absolutely zero for Kwiinya except tell us Kwiinya is a bandit economy - which it is. That's how these Nyati house graduate activists roll. Big talk, near-zero impact. Perhaps you are right. They were so traumatized in those jails and torture chambers that they came out with a warped sense of reality that they could actually change a world in which there is nothing new under the sun - it never changes meaningfully for long.
Double O was very interesting when we "mealy-mouthed urchins" as he called us, clipped at his heels for the fun of it.
He had an elephantine temper too. Sasa sisi ni wazee wa kijiji soon to have grandkids, while dubula dubula is long gone.
Time is something else.
Pole on the loss of your dad. I have lost many very close relas too. I couldn't have put it better; at the end of the day family is what matters.
Speaking of strange Kwiinya, I was reading the hard copy of the Daily Nation jana. On the cover was a jamaa with a huge beaming smile. The chap in the payroll department of Equity bank is accused of squirreling 1.5 billion kshs squirreluuu in 47 transactions to different newly opened mysterious company accounts in different Kwiinyan banks.
The guy went on leave for a few days and his credentials were used to access the payroll accounts to do the transactions transuu. Hooded CID fellows arrested him and his dad. Strangely, there's no mention of who the people are that withdrew those huge sums from those various company accounts.
I bet you this was a brilliantly executed heist by all parties. The guy got his cut, the corresponding banks got their cut, the CID guys got their cut, and best of all, Ikwiti gets its money refunded via fraud insurance. The public watches sijui CID with AK-47s pretending to investigate, thinking something meaningful is happening to recover what's lost.
As soon as the focus moves on to the next big scandal, after a few weeks, the story is quickly forgotten and all the parties participant in the heist are busy buying tinted (always) 2024 Landcruisers while farting big in the beautiful huge bathrooms of their triple storey mega-mansions complete with sojas at the gate and electric wire fencing that could roast even an intruding leopard into dust in two seconds.
On the page right next to it, the paper reported that KSH 69 billion was lost to a palm oil import tax evasion scheme. That's Kwiinya for you.
It's a country full of brilliant people. At stealing. If they used all these smarts to actually make an honest living and build industries through sweat, imagine what a paradise we would be.
Fairandbalanced you're wrong. The easiest place for a black man to make money is Kwiinya. I was shocked the other day to see one of my high school comrades being vetted for a huge position in gava. Number one, he featured nowhere academically back then. Number two, his CV did not add up. No known currently running businesses, a long string of past failed tiny ventures, hata in employeeship - the easiest of all - he didn't hack it. His net-worth admitted during the vetting? Almost a B after working for a parastatal for a few months. That's Kwiinya for you.
Kwiinya is the only place where an illiterate like Livondo or one like Sonko can become a billionaire in a week, while heavily degreed, tichital-spewing academics die with zero. Isapite. By the way Livondo was also in that same paper over some multi-billion Zambian military scam.
Jipange folks. Make your money honestly while young, then come enjoy it with your family in Kwiinya if your dream is to retire here. As Moi used to say; "watu wanapiga kelele wakilalamiga oo oo lagini masiku zinagwenda!" He too is also six feet under. Life is very short, buddies.
Ni hayo tu.
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