Here are a few facts that I found out about Nairobi and Kenya...
- There is no public mode of transport in Nairobi... no buses, no trains. The only way to travel is a privately run bus service ( a name starting with 'm' that i dont remember now :) ) The minimum rate is 20 shillings ( 1 rs = 1.6 shillings ) and people spend upto a hundred shillings ( one way ) to get to work. Moreover, these fares are not fixed, they apparently charge more on rainy days.
This makes me wonder how much people actually save off their salary.
- I dont think there is a concept of saving here... you splurge what you earn and have a good time.
- Locals don't have an opinion that marriage is the ultimate. They have many boy friends and multiple partners. If it doesn't work out, people just go around with other people. This has resulted such a high rate of HIV+ and people dying of aids.
Curiously, people are not very worried or petrified of getting aids or others in their family being prone to it. It just seems to be a part of their lives. A sample case is of a 14 year old girl pregnant, the father of her child abandoning her for reasons unknown. Another of a lady dying of aids leaving her ten year ols son in her sister's care.
- A country with such a similar history to ours, colonised by the british and subjected to the same issues years ago, has turned out so differently than ours. It has its rich people, a lot foreigners who came for work, but also has such a huge population below the poverty line.
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u should read up on the Mau-Mau's and the rebellion
supero super blog yar.........i thought midway if i had inadverntly ventured into some national geographic article.......
reading it gave me a feeling of actually being there.........
i will come and see videos and pics........
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