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Of colonial 'bwana' masters and modern-day pretenders to aristocracy

Politician J.M. Kariuki [second right] talking to NYS servicemen at seven fork road Machakos. [File, Standard]

Pretensions to high class or aristocratic feelings are common to people who acquire some wealth irrespective of how they did so. They change, 'develop airs' and tend to look down on others.

It happens even in the 21st Century Kenya where a new breed of newly rich, the Hustler Grandees, flash wealth in the midst of growing poverty and adopt aristocratic tendencies.

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