• Karibu Kenya

    Hello hello everyoneeeee!!!! I missed you all and blogging and the whole shenanigans. I apologize for being so MIA. Let me jist you what happened. So as part of my masters program here in San francisco, we get to do something called an action project instead of writing a boring old 100 page thesis, we work with a company for a month as consultants and I got assigned GE healthcare in Nairobi, Kenya. I was so excited and it was an amazing experience working with the GE Team. However, all work and no play makes me a dull kid so of course I played as hard as i worked.

    First of all, I have to say that I really admire Kenyans as people, they are really nice, friendly not as aggressive as nigerians (sorry my naija people una too dey shout), very orderly and organized. I mean i saw people lining up for the bus (danfo-like buses which they call matato). It was overall an amazing experience. I learned a few new swahili words which got me by at least in being courteous and initiating conversations. They seemed to think I was Kenyan and were very surprised when I said I was Nigerian which I found funny.

    I also got to visit the Maasai Mara village which is a big tourist attraction. I saw many people that flew from all over the world to see the wildlife, the wildebeest migration which happens to be a wonder of the world, not sure what number. We danced and talked with the Maasai people and I learned a lot about their culture. They were very pleasant people and very focused on using natural things all the way. They even built their houses with cow dung just as a way of depicting that they use natural things. Unfortunately, that invited a lot of flies but they did not seem to mind at all. They taught us how to make fire, showed us their houses, took pictures with us and we jumped with them as that is part of their tradition. This is not a food post so I would let the pictures speak for themselves.

    Words I learned:

    Karibu : Welcome

    Habari : Hello

    Sawa Sawa : Ok

    Pole : Sorry

    Simba: Lion

    Asante : Thank You

    Now you get a lesson in Swahili. Enjoy the pictures

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    maasai boy

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    making fire in maasai mara

    maasai warrior

    maasai mara vllage kitchen

    Where the Maasai people cook

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    Afrolems with florian rutsch and darin

    Afrolems with maasai warriors

    little turtle

    camel riding

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    Zebra

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    Lions sleeping

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    landscape in maasai mara

    rainbow in maasai mara

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    wildebeest migration

    Getting ready for the migration

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    wildbeast and rainbow

    Afrolems maasai mara kenya

    Asante Kenya!

     

    13 comments on “Karibu Kenya”

    1. 9jafoodie Reply

      Heii!!! Welcome back…. This sounds like the best thesis ever.. Lol. This option has to be available @ whatever schl i select for my MBA. Looking forward to all them Kenyan recipes 🙂

    2. Jibs Reply

      Lovely pictures! That picture of the sunrise is so beautiful and the picture of the rays of light through the clouds is amazing as well. Looks like you had a lot of fun!

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    4. Elohor Idemi Reply

      Simba actually means lion, Wow, sure ve learnt sumtin new, thanks for the lesson 101 and the beautiful beautiful picture!

    5. Tatashey Reply

      OMG, sounds so exciting! I’d love to go. I’m sure the culinary experience was amazing too.

    6. Emeka Nwodo Reply

      Great piece. Thank Goodness the Kenyans made you out! We can’t dash you to East Africa so easily. Lol. Awesome! Really love the pics! I was going to ask if you were allowed to keep the turtle for a few weeks, so cute! Houses built with Cow dung? Would like see that. Silly question: Do the Masai still hunt Lions?

      • afrolems Reply

        Haha its not a silly question, our tour guide said they still do. At 10, the men get circumcised and then at 14 they send them out into the wild to live for 4 years (to become real men) this is where they come in contact with lions

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