Hard-ons, currency and large limousines

On this Kenyan Group blog, someone posted a badly edited image 100 shilling note with a picture of the prime-minister-designate super-imposed on it. Another someone then gets a hard-on looking at the currency note, that they wrote a blog post about it – the point of order being how dashing the prime minister looked on printed money, and would have certainly looked hotter¹ had it been a 1,000 shilling note ?!
I understand now the presence of cheer leaders for gigantic official limousines – its just l.o.v.e.

¹ – Keeping in mind currency-note-cheer-leader-man above, why is this guy still considered a deviant ?

More on Expats

I just saw this interesting post at the strangely titled aaarrrggg blog, which comments about a blog written by British expat wife living in Kenya. This is the essence of what the post says:

I’m idealistic and I’d like to think that for all the lavish lifestyles that expats enjoy in Kenya they have a keen awareness of their privileged location in an exploitative international economic and political system…..
Its just that I firmly believe that privilege brings with it responsibility to pay it forward and to undermine the very system that put you on top at the expense of others.

Why will someone (anyone, not just an expat) in a position of privilege undermine a system that has them tops? Is the desire to pay-it-forward natural, or is that an assumption?

I don’t think its natural, the numbers are stacked completely against it. So it has to be an assumption.

Two, contrasting, but interesting blogs

I found this blog : Rants and Raves of a Kenyan Gay man. And so I circulated the link among our Kenyan staff in the office (its an NGO, lots of free time for everyone to read blogs).
Plenty of fun watching varying expressions of dismay and horror – our accountant (his car has an ominous bumper sticker that says : “In case of Rapture, this car will be Driverless”) even crossed himself as if he had seen Count Dracula!

That said, the blog is actually very good. There is a sense of purpose and self awareness about the writer, absent in so many other blogs. The comment box is particularly humorous, and recommended reading, if at least to get a sense of popular reaction, if not for the snarky responses of the blog author.

Then I found this blog by someone called Wendwa. Have been left feeling uncertain if the whole thing is actually a finely laid out joke. At first glance it appears to be a militantly Godly blog, lines from the bible ambushing the reader at every turn, and prayers sprayed around like machine gun fire.

Yet, on the other hand, there are such lust filled posts, as this (titled: “Bless me while I masturbate”!) which left me quite amused, and also feeling a little dirty (and it takes a bit to make me feel dirty).

Most suspicious is the title of the blog itself: “set the trumpet to thy mouth (hos 8:1)”.
Bring trumpety trumpet to thine mouth? What kind of metaphorical trumpet would that be? Hmmm….
Overall, a good read, a writer with some expressive talents.

UPDATE:

A reader wrote in that this blogger, a subject of the above post, has accidentaly deleted all the blog posts, and also changed the title of the blog. What gives?

Couple of blogs of note

After my earlier complaint I went looking for interesting local Kenyan writing with a “literary” bent, here is what I unearthed.

African Bullets and Honey – lots of interesting perspectives for a foreigner like me, it is written by someone (who is nameless in the blog) possessing great skill and talent. While the political insight was fine, I found the travel blog postings rather delightful with the right touch of humor and introspection.  I detect a touch of Chatwin and Dickens (Dickens did write a couple of travelogues – “Pictures from Italy” being one) in terms of style ? I think such personal first hand accounts of African experiences in  a foreign land are few and far between, this blog is a pointer that we need more! (Highly recommended, particularly the posts about the trips to Russia and Latvia)

Kwani Blog – this has an interesting mix of Kenyan writers. A lot of the poetry is dire, but the writing is generally high caliber and issue-tastic.  A notable collection of young writers to look for.