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Bamburi Beach Hotel waiter Getrude Abadelo serves Madafu welcome drinks to Belgium nationals Jean Krings, 75 (left) and her daughter on arrival at the hotel for one week holiday. Jean, a repeat guest visited the country for the first time 35 years ago. PHOTO: FILE
Oh poor Kenyans. So you have lowered the bar so much that you can't even qualify for the title of a drinking nation, decades after you were declared the best?
Let's break it down. Generations after a regional leader purportedly said Nairobi is better than some Western capital, Kenyans, including those who have never left their villages have never dismounted their high horse to see the reality on the ground.
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