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Wifi, 'mzinga' and zero ambition: The ugly side of 'pampers' Gen Z

The messy truths of raising Gen Z in modern Kenya. [iStockphoto]

They arrive like a new species; well-fed, well-spoken, well-entitled yet strangely undercooked by life. You look at them twice, sometimes thrice, not out of admiration, but out of biological confusion. Is this truly my child? The nose says yes. The attitude says: Imported.

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