MUNAISHI KWA VIKOMBE

ii ndio kiburi promax ama.

You will show us news(directly translated from Xhosa (with a clicksound) )

Ukifika jiji usisahau kijiji.... I thought they said.Anyway,I'm assuming he has a sense of humour to him and probably is not that bad of a guy,save for the emotional flooding in the heat of the moment.Juu ii on a mchongoano level ni showstopper. Ni mwecheche.Wah

Last time I checked ,GHETTO had an apportioned meaning that went something like.Getting Higher Education To Teach Others.And SLUM ,Silver Lives Underneath. Anyway and as is often said,modest means are not to be despised .For great oaks from little acorns will grow.

In so saying,a huge chunk of big names in popular sports ie basketball,soccer name it.Didnt grow up with much and have once lived in shanty towns.Not forgetting them in the arts,music artists et al.Aliko Dangote,Oprah Winfrey and many other known names i'd urge you to check up.And who have scaled the heights of financial success.Have at some point lived in the same informal housings.The take home is then reiterating that small beginnings are not to be looked down upon.Great men have come out of Mathare,Mukuru kwa njenga,Makoko,Khayelitsha,Dharavinot forgeting the favelasand barios of S.America.

Of informal settlement housing.Tin is often used in the Kenyan setting.Privacy is usually only the concern.For this reason ghetto kids can at times be a click above their peers elsewhere in terms of exposure due to the walls have ears effect.Are they that uncomfortable,that will be generally a no unless there is a sanitation or maintenance issue.Iron sheet itself does not make it necessarily uncormfortable.Discormfort is hence not the issue ,they are quite habitable.Only you don't want to be sandwiched between two neighbours who are not as christian.And even if they were a proper couple.There'll still be tidbits of privacy issues spilling over if you know what I mean.I agree privacy is overly scanty but cormfort seldom is.

But to say kikombe,debe or whatever they mused is a bit severe in my opinion.To put it right, there are so many people living happily in the ghettos.Happy and fulfilled even with little so long as they have food,clothes and a roof over their heads.Is it not said that the most important things in life are free.The harmony,the joy,the love,the health,the peace of mind,the family,the air we breathe all don't cost a dime,rich or poor.

Surprisingly,there are people living in what would pass for informal settlement.That are more than able to live a decent life.Like a guy will own a posho mill,a water point,a food joint and still work a job.A Certified Hustler who earns cumulatively enough to afford most other places.But will not leave the area .Guys who own matatus that ply the routes and that run many other errands generating decent income still are accustomed to and will prefer their hood.There are people in these tin walled neighbourhoods who are doing very well in overall standards and that earn good.But they like it there.Where their business treasures continue to lay and where their heart finds tranquility.You call it whatever but to them it's home.And with good reasons broken down.

So it's not 100 percent of times that the type of material you house especially if rented is made of directly correlates to perceived earnings.

Are there people unable to afford basic needs. Of course yes.The ghetto system however probably as a contingency measure has everything scaled down to the smallest monetary unit.Flour,cooking oil,kerosene for 5/10 bob,even gyms fee(20/),shs 5/ if not 2/ for a bathroom run name it.

Let's then coexist .In harmony,one to another.Rich or poor,black or white,slave or master.Shanty or suburb.