This blogger who has lived in Tanzania for many years has quietly noted the rising resentment in that country against Kenyan nationals. They are regularly arrested and jailed for being in the country illegally and getting a work permit is much easier for a South African currently than it would be for a Kenyan national.
The founding father of that nation Mwalimu Julius Nyerere must be turning in his grave at this development after risking all for many years to fight apartheid in South Africa. Dar-es-salaam was the headquarters of Nelson Mandela’s ANC for many years. Now the “kaburus” reign supreme in Nyerere country.
In sharp contrast Tanzanians are having a ball in Kenya. Many of them have purchased land and even obtained ID cards. In fact there are cases known to this writer where Tanzanian nationals are harassing local Kenyans and making life very difficult for them (in their own country).
The word in Dar-es-salaam is that Kenyans are very desperate for the East African legislative Assembly to pass the much anticipated law that will allow free movement of labour and goods in the region. The Tanzanians believe that since there are no jobs left in Kenya, Kenyans want to flock into their country and take all the jobs. On average Kenyans are better educated than Tanzanians (Kenyans are in fact the most educated nation on the continent currently).
At the moment many frustrated Kenyans are being held at bay by the work permit requirements and the truth is that many of them are working illegally in Tanzania, mainly in the teaching profession and legally in so many other sectors of the economy.
The bitter reality which Tanzanians will not accept is that it is Kenyans who run the Tanzanian economy.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Those Who Know What The Swahili Word “Tamu” Means Will Understand The New Wa-tamu, Near Malindi
Driving along the Mombasa-Malindi road recently, this blogger decided to stop at Watamu, about ten kilometers from Malindi town and went to the sandy white beaches to cool off from the unbearable heat currently being experienced in the coastal area.
At the public beach in Watamu, nobody speaks English. Only three languages can be heard here, Italian, Kikamba and Kigiriama in that order. Italian happens to be the nationality of the aging white women who flock these beaches in search of sun, sand but mostly sex. And they seem to be getting all three in plenty to the extent that they tell their friends back home who subsequently visit in droves. The result is that the place is choking with Italian tourists.
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Also published today
Are These Signs Of Panic At KTN?
Now Top Ministers Says He Will Not Pay Narc Kenya Monthly Subscriptions
What Are All These Killings In Mount Elgon About?
The divide between the haves and have-nots is probably too wide to ever bridge. Here's a classic example. Ordinary Kenyans are discriminated against because of their tribe every day while privileged Kenyans seating in air-conditioned luxury in Europe or the US castigate this blogger for discussing tribalism which they are sure exists only in the minds of a few.
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Just as I removed my sandals to walk on the water, I could not help seeing two young men wearing tight 'biker' shorts with their manhood bulging conspicuously from the costumes as they flanked an elderly Italian lady who could easily pass for their grandmother.
The lady who looked seventy something walked about proudly with her 'catches' the same way a hunter would parade his game trophies. The two young Kenyans carried the lady's belongings including sun oil, handbags and all. They were conversing in Italian all this time.
I learnt later that the two boys were locals from the Giriama tribe who double up as beach boys besides working as Gigolos in business to meet the “desires and needs” of mostly aging Italian women who are heavily laden with euro's and willing to spend on the local studs.
A few meters away, a group of boys speaking Kikamba dispersed almost immediately when they saw a group of elderly and young Italians approach the beach and rushed towards them offering several items for sale in fluent Italian that also mesmerizes the visitors who stop to converse with these ‘black people speaking their language'
Many strike a deal and manage to sell items like small carvings but more strike the moreb lucrative “deal” which is friendship with the visitors who are easily convinced to hire them temporarily as tour guides since they speak their language. Those young youths who take elderly women as lovers usually start like this.
Just near the entrance to the beach, I notice a young local guy, barely 20 years old, spotting dreadlocks and wearing dark designer sun glasses. He is busy on his expensive Nokia camera phone speaking Italian to the person on the other end of the line. I later learn he is a prominent broker here and gets the Italians stuff they can't get in the supermarkets, like studs and drugs.
Many of the boys here have tales to tell of how they have traveled to Italy on several occasions with their lovers or how they live comfortable lives as their subsistence is heavily subsidized by the elderly foreign women who always return to Malindi for their annual vacation but will frequently send money to their local lover's by money transfer. (Are all the big figures of money remitted back home by Kenyans abroad skewed by this activity?).
On getting to Malindi town, somebody coming here for the first time may think that they are in Italy as there are plenty of roadside boards written in Italian and lots of restaurants and even supermarkets specializing in Italian stuff.
Almost all the white people and tourists in Malindi are Italian and legend has it that the first Italians came here in the seventy's and were mainly Mafioso looking for a place to hide as they had been marked for death by rival gangs. A visit to the Malindi casino may help you believe this tale. My jaw almost dropped clean off just looking at the kind of money being spent here. A colleague quipped that it made Nairobi Casinos look like insignificant kiosks.
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At the public beach in Watamu, nobody speaks English. Only three languages can be heard here, Italian, Kikamba and Kigiriama in that order. Italian happens to be the nationality of the aging white women who flock these beaches in search of sun, sand but mostly sex. And they seem to be getting all three in plenty to the extent that they tell their friends back home who subsequently visit in droves. The result is that the place is choking with Italian tourists.
========================================
Also published today
Are These Signs Of Panic At KTN?
Now Top Ministers Says He Will Not Pay Narc Kenya Monthly Subscriptions
What Are All These Killings In Mount Elgon About?
The divide between the haves and have-nots is probably too wide to ever bridge. Here's a classic example. Ordinary Kenyans are discriminated against because of their tribe every day while privileged Kenyans seating in air-conditioned luxury in Europe or the US castigate this blogger for discussing tribalism which they are sure exists only in the minds of a few.
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Just as I removed my sandals to walk on the water, I could not help seeing two young men wearing tight 'biker' shorts with their manhood bulging conspicuously from the costumes as they flanked an elderly Italian lady who could easily pass for their grandmother.
The lady who looked seventy something walked about proudly with her 'catches' the same way a hunter would parade his game trophies. The two young Kenyans carried the lady's belongings including sun oil, handbags and all. They were conversing in Italian all this time.
I learnt later that the two boys were locals from the Giriama tribe who double up as beach boys besides working as Gigolos in business to meet the “desires and needs” of mostly aging Italian women who are heavily laden with euro's and willing to spend on the local studs.
A few meters away, a group of boys speaking Kikamba dispersed almost immediately when they saw a group of elderly and young Italians approach the beach and rushed towards them offering several items for sale in fluent Italian that also mesmerizes the visitors who stop to converse with these ‘black people speaking their language'
Many strike a deal and manage to sell items like small carvings but more strike the moreb lucrative “deal” which is friendship with the visitors who are easily convinced to hire them temporarily as tour guides since they speak their language. Those young youths who take elderly women as lovers usually start like this.
Just near the entrance to the beach, I notice a young local guy, barely 20 years old, spotting dreadlocks and wearing dark designer sun glasses. He is busy on his expensive Nokia camera phone speaking Italian to the person on the other end of the line. I later learn he is a prominent broker here and gets the Italians stuff they can't get in the supermarkets, like studs and drugs.
Many of the boys here have tales to tell of how they have traveled to Italy on several occasions with their lovers or how they live comfortable lives as their subsistence is heavily subsidized by the elderly foreign women who always return to Malindi for their annual vacation but will frequently send money to their local lover's by money transfer. (Are all the big figures of money remitted back home by Kenyans abroad skewed by this activity?).
On getting to Malindi town, somebody coming here for the first time may think that they are in Italy as there are plenty of roadside boards written in Italian and lots of restaurants and even supermarkets specializing in Italian stuff.
Almost all the white people and tourists in Malindi are Italian and legend has it that the first Italians came here in the seventy's and were mainly Mafioso looking for a place to hide as they had been marked for death by rival gangs. A visit to the Malindi casino may help you believe this tale. My jaw almost dropped clean off just looking at the kind of money being spent here. A colleague quipped that it made Nairobi Casinos look like insignificant kiosks.
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