One of the funniest ways God can catch you is by blessing you with high-energy kids who love you. You will know that khaki is not leather. Bro, you will play, you will climb, you will jump, and you will crawl.
“I don't like stress”, ha… you will bleat like a goat, you will roar like a lion, you will fly like a dragon. You, you will do everything.
“I am really tired.” okay!! Rest for 10 mins and continue, my friend!
You want to rest and just lie there in bed. Good! They will climb you. They will plait your hair. They will blow air in your ears.
You want to use the bathroom in peace? Ohh you better get locks that require a retina scan, because those little humans will enter the bathroom and ask what you are doing, when they can clearly see you taking a poop, bruh.
No peace for the wicked fam.
I look at my daughter and whisper “I have finally been caught by God”. She woke up and didn't need 10-15 mins to be fully awake.
Be ready to watch tv anytime. Be ready to meow like a cat anytime. And be ready to play hide and seek any damn time!
Be ready for your face to be used for random makeups. Be ready to play cops and robbers. Be ready to dress like a princess. Be ready to be a sick patient.
Be very READY for everything 🫵🏾
Someone asked me why I looked old or older in my Kibera photos compared to Now, this was my house when Legendary @NaziziHirji visited me in 2009. Looking to how youths are being used badly as goons let me tell those who don’t understand coz it’s clear most of you may not fully grasp the reality of life in the informal settlements so allow me to offer you a lived synopsis.
The slums age me long before the world ever gave me a fair chance. By 18, I carried the weight of decades not because I wanted to, but because I had to.
Spending your first 25 years in a place where poverty is normalized doesn’t just shape you it scars you. Not only through the absence of basic needs, but through the constant dehumanization even from relatives who distance themselves once they move beyond those streets. You’re criminalized by default. Watched, profiled, and blamed before you’re ever seen or heard.
There is no access to food security, no reliable healthcare, no consistent education, and certainly no financial safety net. Just the brutal mathematics of survival.
And survival isn’t free it demands your innocence, your dreams, and often, your spirit. It ages you. It erodes your sense of wonder. It kills the child in you before he ever knows what freedom feels like.
But somehow, I found a way out. Music became my escape not just an art form, but a form of resistance. Through it, I found my own . I reclaimed my voice. And in doing so, I began the slow work of reinstalling my soul.
This is why ending poverty is not charity it is justice. It is the restoration of dignity and the protection of every child’s right to simply be a child.
If this doesn’t happen the goons will never ever go away and your favorite politician probably knows this and it excites him.
#endpolicebrutalityke
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