WASAPERE WA EASTLANDO
I am not one to generalise. So I hate stereotyping. It is just that in Kenya stereotyping what we love to do. And hot damn it has reached a point that it is funny as hell. Take tribal stereotyping for instance. My tribe can be said to be Kikuyu so I am a mkikuyu aka msapere (in slang/shen'g). Wasapere (which is the plural of msapere) are 'known' to love money so much that they are thieves in nature. They will steal anything in order to make money. money-oriented is what they are. They have been known to fake being of another tribe just to make money.
This is how. See in Kenya tourism is kinda catchy with them Whiteys loving to visit for the cool weather , the scenery and the culture. And the latter is where a Kikuyu comes in. Since we have been affected by the western culture, most of our traditions have been wiped out. It has been so eroded that we wear clothes these days. Yeah. That bad. Only very few tribes still hold on to their culture, one being the Masai. Whitey knows this and Masai is who they come to see. But the only way the Whitey can recognise them is by the black-and-red tartan cloth that they see wraped around them Masais in the brochure. So all the Msapere has to do is get such a cloth and go to the coast and pretend to be Masai. Simple. Quick cash. And if he gets to hang around a White chick, sex is guaranteed. Because Whitey believes every nigga's got 12 inches of dick just hanging around. Mine is 4 if you were wondering . Cant go as deep but I got ways to compesate.(That is how I console myself)
Any way, I digress. In short what I am saying is the greatest stereotyping of Kikuyu is that they are thieves. There are a few others, like the fact that Kikuyu food is disgusting and Kikuyu sex is cold, but that is a post for another day.
The other stereotyping is environmental stereotyping. In Kenya you either live in urban or rural. The urban , specifically Nairobi, is divided in two. You either live with the rich or the not-so rich. Eastlands aka Eastlando is for the not-so rich, and is where we live (with my wac aunt). The stereotype about Eastlando is that guys here are hustlers, which in Kenya means they will do anything as long as it gives them cash. It does not necessarily mean we have to steal and thieve . But why would we not hustle? It is obvious that we cant make ends meet otherwise we would be living with the rich, or Barbies as we call them.This has led to the conclusion that Eastlando chicks are golddiggers. The fact that a chick will only go out with a guy who has enough money to support her has been termed as golddigging now. Personally i dont see why it is an issue, that a chick loves me because of my money and I will explain that in another post.
So as far as stereotyping goes, the worst is getting many in one. Like being a Msapere girl living in Eastlando. That makes her a moneyoriented thief that will bend over backwards to wipe you clean of your cash. That is just a long way of calling her a whore. Now obviously being in Eastlando doesnt make you an outright hustler and being a msapere doesnt necessarily make you a thief, but obviously enough Wasapere and Eastlando people have exhibited such characteristics that it has become a stereotype. I try so much not to be stereotypical unless its for comical purposes
Like today. I was in a matt [vehicles used to ferry people who dont have money to buy cars] going home and was seated next to this incredibly hot chick who was talking to her equally hot friend about how they spent their weekend. They were talking in their mothertongue [Kikuyu]. So the first chick, lets call her Wanjiku, was telling the friend how some she approached some drunk dude in a rave joint in Nairobi and stole his cell phone. Some how the dude and Wanjiku know each other because she kept saying how she stole the phone because the dude owed her money ... 3 000 Kenyans . She told her friend how there was no way she would return the money until the nigga paid him. The negro happened to call while we were there and the chick switched seamlessly to English but was still adamant on the fact that the nigga better pay up.
Her end of conversation was like..
That was all she kept repeating. Anyway they alighted before me but it was kind of insuated that the negro had agreed to pay up. To any one else she would look like a typical Kikuyu living in Eastlando but to me, this is just a bitch that doesn't get screwed over easily.
This is how. See in Kenya tourism is kinda catchy with them Whiteys loving to visit for the cool weather , the scenery and the culture. And the latter is where a Kikuyu comes in. Since we have been affected by the western culture, most of our traditions have been wiped out. It has been so eroded that we wear clothes these days. Yeah. That bad. Only very few tribes still hold on to their culture, one being the Masai. Whitey knows this and Masai is who they come to see. But the only way the Whitey can recognise them is by the black-and-red tartan cloth that they see wraped around them Masais in the brochure. So all the Msapere has to do is get such a cloth and go to the coast and pretend to be Masai. Simple. Quick cash. And if he gets to hang around a White chick, sex is guaranteed. Because Whitey believes every nigga's got 12 inches of dick just hanging around. Mine is 4 if you were wondering . Cant go as deep but I got ways to compesate.(That is how I console myself)
Any way, I digress. In short what I am saying is the greatest stereotyping of Kikuyu is that they are thieves. There are a few others, like the fact that Kikuyu food is disgusting and Kikuyu sex is cold, but that is a post for another day.
The other stereotyping is environmental stereotyping. In Kenya you either live in urban or rural. The urban , specifically Nairobi, is divided in two. You either live with the rich or the not-so rich. Eastlands aka Eastlando is for the not-so rich, and is where we live (with my wac aunt). The stereotype about Eastlando is that guys here are hustlers, which in Kenya means they will do anything as long as it gives them cash. It does not necessarily mean we have to steal and thieve . But why would we not hustle? It is obvious that we cant make ends meet otherwise we would be living with the rich, or Barbies as we call them.This has led to the conclusion that Eastlando chicks are golddiggers. The fact that a chick will only go out with a guy who has enough money to support her has been termed as golddigging now. Personally i dont see why it is an issue, that a chick loves me because of my money and I will explain that in another post.
So as far as stereotyping goes, the worst is getting many in one. Like being a Msapere girl living in Eastlando. That makes her a moneyoriented thief that will bend over backwards to wipe you clean of your cash. That is just a long way of calling her a whore. Now obviously being in Eastlando doesnt make you an outright hustler and being a msapere doesnt necessarily make you a thief, but obviously enough Wasapere and Eastlando people have exhibited such characteristics that it has become a stereotype. I try so much not to be stereotypical unless its for comical purposes
Like today. I was in a matt [vehicles used to ferry people who dont have money to buy cars] going home and was seated next to this incredibly hot chick who was talking to her equally hot friend about how they spent their weekend. They were talking in their mothertongue [Kikuyu]. So the first chick, lets call her Wanjiku, was telling the friend how some she approached some drunk dude in a rave joint in Nairobi and stole his cell phone. Some how the dude and Wanjiku know each other because she kept saying how she stole the phone because the dude owed her money ... 3 000 Kenyans . She told her friend how there was no way she would return the money until the nigga paid him. The negro happened to call while we were there and the chick switched seamlessly to English but was still adamant on the fact that the nigga better pay up.
Her end of conversation was like..
'No I'm not giving you the phone. i want my 3 k'
'Don't worry [sic] where I am'
'My 3 K'
That was all she kept repeating. Anyway they alighted before me but it was kind of insuated that the negro had agreed to pay up. To any one else she would look like a typical Kikuyu living in Eastlando but to me, this is just a bitch that doesn't get screwed over easily.
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