20 signs you are a ‘hustler’ middle-class Nairobian

One of Nairobi estates    Photo: Courtesy

It is time we cut the fragile middle-class some flak. They are in what sociologists call an “acrobatic balance” in which their ambitions are laudable, their dreams valid, but they’re not sure their lifestyles would be sustainable when the pay check becomes kaput. Here is how to tell you’re a ‘hustler’ middle class Nairobian:

1. You keep bottles of expensive whiskey and sickeningly have them on display in the sitting room. Rural.