14/01/2018
Ten Signs indicating you are a FAKE middle-class
1. Battalion of majirani
One sign you are doing well is how far
majirani are from your house.
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So, when you live in an apartment
block where your next-door
neighbours are 10 Nigerian dudes
sharing a one-bedroom house and
you don’t know what they do, then
you aren’t in the middle class.
2. Estate academies
When you have an academy between
two blocks of flats owned by Njeri and
Kariuki and christened Njekari
Academy, and the school bus is a
Toyota Wish owned by Kariuki, then
you are miles away from the proper
middle class rung of the ladder of life.
These estates also have no swimming
pools or playgrounds, and car owners
have to hoot to scatter students from
the dusty road leading to the estate’s
string of pubs.
3. Nduthi is your Uber
When you live in an area a taxi driver
can’t drive to when darkness falls or
when it rains juu ya matope, then you
are deep in the middle of poverty and
not middle class.
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But chances are you have the number
of a nduthi guy who will always come
to your rescue.
4. Mutura and kerosene
Proper middle-class dwellings have a
shopping arcade, where all businesses
operate. But if your hood has a place
for mutura, thufu, mahindi choma, mtu
wa makaa and a spot for where some
guy is selling kerosene, then you are
in the middle of hustlers.
5. Loud lungula
If you can hear Rasta wa door 12
drilling some hapless college girl
mercilessly and even your walls can’t
muffle her screams, my friend, you
aren’t in the middle class, it’s Rasta
boy who is in the middle of
something!
6. Kids scratching jalopies
An estate where kids carry rusty nails,
drawing patterns on your shiny
Japanese car and write stuff like
‘wash me’ on your dusty screens
means you live in a dusty hood and
are surrounded by kids with poor
upbringing.
7. No pets please
Middle-class hoods allow for all
manner pets, including albino
Burmese pythons! You can enjoy
walking your dogs in the evening
without being stoned by rascals.
But when the only ‘pet’ allowed in
your estate is a college girl, whose
rent you pay in Roysambu, then you
aren’t in the middle class, my brother.
8. Pastor kwa dirisha
Middle class characters love their
peace after splitting heads with
Johnnie Walker Gold Reserve the
previous day.
But if Sunday mornings are
unbearable because The Bare Chest of
Christ Ministry has a service right next
to your bedroom window, then you are
in the middle of a drummer, prayer
warrior and a very loud tarumbeta
player.
9. Off-licence local
Middle class parents know the effects
of pubs in the hood, but if your local
is metres away from your house, and
‘Mwari’, the barmaid occasionally
comes knocking at your door over bill
ya jana, my friend, you are in the
middle of an alcohol problem.
10. Parking problem
In middle class proper, residents have
designated parking slots. So, when
you have to be woken up at 3am to
reverse your jalopy so that jirani (see
number 1 above) can drive out, then
you most likely live in a block of flats
and not an apartment, despite the
landlord christening his place
‘Harmony Apartments.’
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