Oh, how wazungu love their mashakura!

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Germany has sausages and sauerkraut, a fermented cabbage. In my view, cabbage is bad enough anyway, without fermenting it

By Stephen Partington | 3 years ago

The mzungu doesn’t really care for Africa

His loyalties lie elsewhere, with his home country, even if he pretends they don’t

By Stephen Partington | 3 years ago

In Kenya, safe driving is entirely optional

The expatriate always wonders whether the government shouldn’t just give powerful missile launchers to law-abiding drivers

By Stephen Derwent Partington | 4 years ago

Men are something else: The lies men tell with a straight face beats me

It was a woman screaming bloody murder demanding to know who I was and what “my wife” was doing at the back seat of her car in her driveway

By Duncan Kairu | 4 years ago

It’s not worth losing your life over elections

I’ve never quite understood why we insist on looting specifically Indian supermarkets

By Stephen Derwent Partington

Let's talk education: Kenya's 'corporate schooling'

Both schools as institutions and the shaping of Kenya's curriculum seems to be edging ever further towards private sector engrossment

By Stephen Derwent Partington

Can’t wait to munch Chinese food on SGR

We can assume that it wasn’t the whiteys who died of overwork, as many of the photographs show them sitting in tents, being fanned and drinking tea

By Stephen Derwent Partington

An expatriate’s tummy never rumbles

For the expatriate, privation and suffering means not being able to buy crates of fine wine, but only one.

By Stephen Derwent Partington

Expatriates running out of excuses

The EuroAmerican expatriate in Kenya has a stereotypical view of Kenya as the land of 'One, Two, Three', or 'O.T.T.'

By Stephen Derwent Partington

To bet or not to bet, that’s not the question

Betting, and indeed all forms of gambling are, for the expat, risky and pointless.

By Stephen Derwent Partington

Catastrophic: Mzungu poor imitation of ‘kitu kidogo’

They’ll try a couple of words of Kiswahili that their genuine expatriate hosts have taught them and might even wave around a photocopy of some other expatriate’s ‘Alien ID Card’

By Stephen Derwent Partington

The ‘shuka’ makes no sense to mzungu

You’ll see him strolling down the city streets, rain pummelling his stupid face as he uses only his long nose as an umbrella

By Stephen Derwent Partington

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