Posted on : 26-11-2009 | By : admin
Nairobi is indeed one of the most interesting African cities one can be privileged to spend a couple of weeks. Its distinctiveness comes from the people who inhibit it coming from various cultural backgrounds. The city has a place for everyone to dwell irrespective of the language one speaks, the level of education one has attained, religious affiliation or better still, how much income one earns.
Without any doubt, the mixed culture has numerous benefits attached to it, however on the flip side of it is branding the city as a cultural melting point. A situation where one’s culture is replaced by Nairobi’s mixed culture that very few inhabitants have resisted the temptations of adapting it. How many times have we seen and heard our parents saying how someone has changed after living in the city for a while?
The most common thing that identifies people with this mixed culture is sheng, a language that results as an end product of broken English and broken Swahili. Despite the many efforts from the education sector to end the language, it has refused to melt away. Its roots continue to dig themselves deeper and deeper every day. The mixed culture has contributed immensely to the language’s evolving process. Sheng of the mid 1990s is very different from the one in the 2000s and so are the people who belong to those years.
The interesting things to note about the mixed culture are, one, it consumes one’s culture and replaces it with a mixed culture that will not last for a decade due to its ever-growing nature. Two the mixed culture itself is lead and justified by people, this is very different from our individual cultures that often lead the way.
To explain this, picture this scenario if you are living up country and you are about to get married, cultural values dictate that due processes should be followed before tying the knot blissfully. In the mixed culture where there is no value to dictate the terms, one will pursue a come we stay arrangement without anyone uttering a word.
This arrangement is comfortable with both parties on condition that they are living together within the borders of the city. Once they step out of the city, it suddenly dawns on them that something is not right somewhere.
The mixed culture is here to stay and no one can run away with it. Its existence will continue to enjoy its life as long as long as people continue to migrate in the city. The major challenge it faces is justifying its actions to our own cultures.
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Nós passamos do ponto que não tem volta !!!
Also, not to be too negative, by Rafa is playing at a La Liga pace when MLS is much more of a Premier League pace. Not to say that MLS is of that quality, but it’s a fast moving league. I’ve seen Rafa lose the ball a couple of times in this game and in his previous (was it Chicago) because he was operating at that slower Liga pace, expecting more time on the ball. I’m a little worried about that.
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Hey Anders: Happy New Year. Hope you're having a great time in Nairobi. I'm enjoying your posts. Interestingly, the Nairobi Metro 2030 plan is online at
Lots of rubbish in it. In typical fashion, the politicians feel they can set an agenda with promises like this:
“To achieve the objectives set out herein, the following policy, programme and project proposals will be implemented, namely the Metropolitan Road Transport Infrastructure Programme,
Metropolitan Mass Rapid Transit Programme,
Metropolitan Commuter Rail Intervention,
Metropolitan Road Safety Programme and an
Integrated Transport Information System.”
In the time I was in Nairobi, they couldn't even tar the road or improve drainage in the heavily used country bus station or in any of the major Matatu and Nissan convergence points around downtown.
I guess they believe in infrastructural magic: that if they give an initiative a fancy name, it will happen.
Something that would be interesting to explore further would be the cultural assumptions inherent in referring to cultural practices as either 'vulnerabilities' or as 'capacities'. The idea of 'community capacity' is a relatively recent one, and though developed and used with the very best of intentions, isn't there a chance that it comes laden with the possibility of trivialising complex social and relational practices?
I find it interesting that a person with such a smooth and eloquent and apparently educated level of expression has such can make such an irrational and at times ignorant set of points. Firstly to accept the bible as the word of God is historically incorrect and irrational, and therefore a corrupt basis on which to fashion an argument. As a first century series of documents the bible has many historical reasons for its existence, political, cultural, symbolic, and very little to do with literal truth. The second is that there is no discussion of the case where the woman has superior intellect and decision making skills, that she must still be subservient to her husband. Jesus himself seemed opposed to these type of unreasonable rules, as you said in your piece, he supported women and emancipated them for their time. (one would expect him to support their further emancipation in this time).Coming from a home where such was the case and my mother continually bit her tongue, gave in to my father’s poor decision making skills, and the horrendous consequences; leaving my siblings had to deal with. You are just plain wrong!!!!! I am sure you would not support the extreme cases of this where a man decides to have incestuous relationships and councils his wife not to tell anyone, or would you? My father frequently bashed my Mum, and I can’t support a God who sets up a relationship with such imbalance.I respect may husband and he me. We make our decisions very well together, in a mature way. I discovered after living with my previous fiancée for 3 years that he was a bully. That the more I was subservient, the more he abused me, the more I bowed down to him, the less respect he had for me. I am so glad I had those three years to grow and learn and develop and decide not to marry him, thank God our society accepts defacto relationships, and allows people to develop and grow through them. I was very angry with people like you. For your rules don’t always work and ladies, you need to stand up and gain respect, and hold your place in any relationship, particularly marriage. Your view on feminists is so narrow and unsophisticated, it is sadly laughable. Bless you my dear. I hope you have not ruined too many lives. Women you are strong and gorgeous. You are different to men, but just as valuable and important and often as wise if not more. Never accept a man who treats you submissively or does not respect you enough to include you in the decision making aspects of your life. God is greater than this.
you can believe that you have a right to molest young children… that is why we allow the Mosques, but if you actually do practice molesting young children then you go to jail.
A client interview is a good idea. Funny how normally the client is the one thats doing the interviewing.
A plan is needed. Order and timing are critical, violent kickback is expected, ergo: Every good and capable citizen not associated with insurrectionist groups is deputized as a member of the newly established insurrectionist police force. Koran propagation and seditious conspiring at mosques is outlawed viz inciting listed crimes. Law breakers declared outlaws. If outlaws submit to rightful deportation, cease & desist sedition, no harm will befall them.
excellent video, ill be in kenya this coming and hope to make a documentary showcasing the nairobi travel experience too. but im going to focus more on travel options and transportation around this fine city.
WOw… i can't wait for the whole thing!!!!
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i have to say though.. i think the song would be quite a challenge for sel if she were to sing it live