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r/Kenya is a dynamic community for Kenya and her fans. Karibu, Welcome.

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Make sure to follow reddit-wide rules as written here.
Strictly no self-promotion.
Unfortunately it is not feasible to dedicate the front-page to promote everyone’s YouTube channel, merchandise, website, subreddit, business, and so on. We ask that you use the pinned open discussion threads instead, where you can promote your content, engage with the community, and get feedback.Repeat offenders will be banned. Exceptions can be made so please feel free to message the moderators.
Keep posts relevant to the subreddit.
Broadly speaking, anything concerning Kenya is welcome. Some exceptions apply:For help with Swahili, use r/swahili or the pinned threads. For art and photos, use r/kenyanart. For questions that are not open-ended and only require a quick answer please use the pinned open discussion threads.
Avoid Low Effort Posts and Spam.
As the subreddit grows and the volume of posts with it, the need to be regulate them becomes a necessity. As such, we favour posts that are in-depth, insightful, analytical, and encourage discussion, over posts that have little substance and little educational value. Examples include memes; unsourced historical pictures with no context and information; screenshots from social media, and so on.
No hateful content or Harassment.
Anything that is hateful, sexist or bigoted, spam, or 'trolling' to offend the users here will be removed.Homophobia is strictly forbidden.There are plenty of online Kenyan spaces where LGBT people are vilified and their existence constantly scrutinized, this does not have to be one of them. No one cares if you "don’t approve".
Nothing illegal
Do not come here asking where you can find drugs or other illegal things.

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Should I quit my dream job?

Guys, so l've always wanted to be a flight attendant and I've been doing this for 1 years now. The money is good (like really good, I work in one of the gulf countries). At first everything was fine and exciting but now I just feel exhausted. I often feel guilty and ungrateful when I think about quitting because I know a lot of people in Kenya usually turn out in huge numbers during the interview process and end up being rejected. Making friends is hard here let alone having a life. It's basically the same thing on repeat, just different countries. I feel lonely and I think I have functional "depression". Just wanted to vent.

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2024/05/12
18:26 UTC

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Seeking Advice and Partnerships for Online Sales of Leathercrafting Tools in Africa

Hello Everyone,

I'm grateful for the opportunity to engage with this community. I'm Mirko Suka, and we specialize in manufacturing leathercrafting tools, particularly for stamping and carving. We're currently exploring options to expand our online sales in Africa and are interested in gathering advice on potential markets and e-commerce platforms.

Additionally, we're open to partnerships. If anyone is interested in becoming a distributor, either through dropshipping or a standard arrangement, we would love to discuss this further.

Please feel free to visit our store at Stampleather.co to check out our constantly evolving product lineup and see what our customers are saying through their photos and reviews.

Thank you for your time and any guidance you can provide!

Mirko Suka

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2024/05/12
17:53 UTC

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Mtoi wangu akiitwa K.U nakataa. Discuss (10 marks)

Is K.U that bad?

3 Comments
2024/05/12
17:37 UTC

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Supporting arsenal ni kazi ngumu bana. Not for the feint hearted

As a Liverpool fan, I really really want to see y'all take this league cup but buana, your way of playing is unsustainable. You can't score in the early minutes then spend the entire game defending against united.

Uncoordinated attacks, losing possession hivi hivi tu and missing attacking opportunities by passing back .

Aye! Full time arsenal fans enyewe y'all mental health is tough as nails.

Can never be me

1 Comment
2024/05/12
17:06 UTC

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Bedsitter Along Section 58 Nakuru

Hello guys I'm looking for a bedsitter or one bedroom along the Nakuru Nairobi highway areas near Section 58 my budget is 10k. Anyone with leads kindly DM

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2024/05/12
17:02 UTC

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Kenyan Ancestry

I made a post awhile back asking about what is appropriate to wear and if my piercings and dreads were okay, with pictures of myself. Multiple people told me I looked Kenyan and I said I didn't think I had any Kenyan ancestry, only different countries in West Africa. Just wanted to say I found out I do have some, I got a breakdown of my ethnic groups and result was the Luhya people. Nothing else for East Africa, just the Luhya people of Kenya 😂

4 Comments
2024/05/12
16:58 UTC

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Mbona lecs wa public universities wanakuanga na kisirani hivi

Karibu nipige mzee wa mtu war vibaya sana hapa uon...smh

9 Comments
2024/05/12
16:44 UTC

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Who’s seeing Einstein?

2 Comments
2024/05/12
16:40 UTC

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"The Gift"

I have a client whose project I've been working on for over 7 months and recently handed it over. I need to do a post-handover follow-up for the next six months to ensure everything is in order. Earlier this year, during one of our meetings, my client mentioned he had a gift for me as a token of appreciation. Despite several meetings and calls between us since then, he is yet to give it to me, always mentioning he forgot to carry or it's on his office desk. I have never asked nor reminded him of the gift myself and whether or not I get it, is the least of my concerns. While I trust he has good intentions, I find the repeated mentions of the gift tiresome and would like to end that conversation respectfully, relieving us both from the chains of “the gift” but mostly him, from the guilt of forgetting it every time. How can I address this without straining our relationship or causing awkwardness? I value our professional rapport and want to maintain it positively during the remaining follow-up period. Also, I don't want to ask for it because it's just so unprofessional.

3 Comments
2024/05/12
16:33 UTC

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Passport Application Follow up

I applied for my passport last year went for biometrics on December, we’re on fourth month this year and the progress is still loading 😭😭 and am supposed to travel this year on November. Where can I go to follow up my passport should I go to huduma or go where I took my biometrics. Even if I have to pay sum to get it I won’t mind.

3 Comments
2024/05/12
16:05 UTC

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Happy Mother's day to all Mother's. We don't take you for Granted!!

Seeing this picture reminds me of what our mother's have been able to do to give us the lives we have now. Sometimes the sacrifices have paid off while others haven't. But they were sacrifices nevertheless.

Cheers to all Mother's in the sub. We are because you are.

4 Comments
2024/05/12
15:12 UTC

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Coding

So coding isn't that hard🤣🤣. I laughed so hard after I printed Hello World! on python. 😂. I thought you needed a powerful computer like in movies. I feel like I wasted the last 5 years of my life. I remember seeing Hello World memes back in 2017 but I was never interested. By now I could have been a wizard of sorts 😭😭.

What I've found over the last two weeks is that programming is mostly about thinking outside the box. I don't know why but it reminds me of high school chemistry.

Anyway this post is for anyone who thinks programming is beyond their abilities. I'm using a book called Practical Programming from pdf drive. It's about learning computer science through Python. Try it and see if it's your thing or not.

22 Comments
2024/05/12
14:11 UTC

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Living in Sigona

I'm house hunting and I saw some good apartments in Sigona. However, I have only lived along Ngong Road my entire life in Nairobi. How is Sigona? In terms of convenience (shopping, hospitals, places to hangout, etc), access to the CBD, security, weather?

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2024/05/12
13:48 UTC

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Techies... How's your tech workflow look like?

Here is mine...

OS => Arch
Window Manager (WM) => i3
Terminal => Terminator
terminal multiplexer => tmux
shell => zsh
Display Manager => SSDM
Background manager => Nitrogen
IDE => Nvim

I bet that's all unless I have left other things out. I am just curious how your work setup look like.

76 Comments
2024/05/12
12:17 UTC

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Kenya is a Bandit Economy: Theft & Plunder

Do you know how insane this is? A failed politician, no known large business, no footprint in any industry, no paper trail of any sort of invention... owning a Ksh. 35+ million car???

Remember she still has an LX570, LC200, L405. Just cars alone worth north of Ksh. 90+ million.

If this is a failed politician with no direct access to public coffers, now imagine the kind of looting happening at the county levels... at the presidency. It is mind boggling to even start imagining.

Weep for your country. Because with the kind of theft going on in this regime, we will have no country left. No country can withstand the kind of theft and plunder unfolding before our eyes and have a future.

42 Comments
2024/05/12
11:43 UTC

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Swahili book recommendations

Off the post about iconic books we read in highschool, I saw someone post utengano as one of the books. This got me thinking about how every piece of literature I consume is in English and this does not sit well with me.

Would you guys recommend some good Swahili books and where to buy them. I'm thinking books written in the last 10 yrs or so and around 300 to 600 pages.

NB: if can include a short description (not necessarily) about the book that would be great.

3 Comments
2024/05/12
11:04 UTC

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Braces and Kissing

People with braces how do you navigate kissing, also those who their partners have braces how is the experience?

7 Comments
2024/05/12
10:38 UTC

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Kenyan Music

Which Kenyan song/artist are you vibing to right now?

For me it’s:- Inakubalika- Matata feat Watendawili OTD- Njerae

5 Comments
2024/05/12
10:34 UTC

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Hows your internet?

Lately internet on both isps has been choppy and unreliable to say the least which made me ask - why arent there more providers in Kenya. Switching from Zuku to Saf and vice versa is like switching from Kamiti to Kondele. Why hasn't there been more investment in this sector?

13 Comments
2024/05/12
10:19 UTC

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Damn rehab?

I think rehab is a scam. Ngl, I know a friend, suffered for 90+days in rehab. The minute she got out, sent a picture of her drinking alcohol. Mind you, it was a bourgeois rehab centre.

Im like damn… so rehab is just bs now? Esp being bombarded with (Motivational quotes, Inspiration shit and the whole platter of this shit. In her rehab days) Its crazy and odd esp from a very morally strict person. Bc why don’t you have self control?

43 Comments
2024/05/12
10:18 UTC

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What do you think?

Kenyans should remember Ruto's tenure did nothing for the first half. Anything he does in the second will be because he wants re election.

4 Comments
2024/05/12
09:22 UTC

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Sex Playmates

All men and women should play the field and date a lot of different people to determine what they really want and what’s most important to them before getting into a long-term relationship. When you’re young and inexperienced, you don’t know what you don’t know. By having multiple romantic options and experiencing several different partners before you get into a long-term relationship, you won’t find yourself thinking that the grass is greener on the other side or that somehow, single people have it better. By learning to allow lovers and sex playmates to come and go as they please in your life, you will create a space for the right person to come and stay in your life for the right reasons. Once you have played the field, then you will be in a better position emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically, to focus 100% on loving, giving to and being authentically present with your relationship partner once you choose one to be exclusive with.

So, this goes back to prospecting—you’ve got to have lots of different prospects. The last thing you want to do is kind of what I did when I was really young and didn't have a lot of experience; I got into my first long-term relationship and actually married a girl I was dating who was really awesome, but deep down, I really wanted to continue dating and play the field, but I just didn't know any better. And internally, I felt that I should've moved on, but I just didn’t have enough experience and the inner strength to move on, because I was scared I was never going to find anybody better. Because in my dating in my personal life, I was just employing a lot of really bad strategies, so when I did meet women that I really liked and who really liked me, within a couple of dates I was talking them out of liking me to the point where I got friend-zoned, or I got ghosted and never heard from them again. And that's why if you spend a lot of time dating, taking women through the seduction process, and getting good at it, that gives you choice with women. And when you've dated a lot of different women, you kind of figure out what it is that you really like, what you don't like, what you can tolerate, what you don't want to put up with, versus just getting serious with the first person that comes along. If you learn to trust your gut and what feels right, that’s always, I've personally found, is the best way to go about it. If you have lots of choices and lots of options, you're never going to be in a rush to make a snap decision because you're afraid of losing somebody. The right person's going to feel easy and effortless, like a nice, good ole comfortable pair of shoes.


21 Comments
2024/05/12
09:07 UTC

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A little opportunity

I'm looking for someone who might be interested in a little opportunity.

I am a website designer and developer...

Thing is I'm not very good at marketing myself and having to call potential clients hunishinda. I try but I'm not good at that. I have tried and found my fair share of clients but I'm never getting used to this. So I'm looking for someone who can do that for me, I know how to find emails, phone numbers..etc. For every successful sale you get a fixed commission on which we will agree upon. WhatsApp : +254758731939

0 Comments
2024/05/12
09:02 UTC

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Mothers day rant

I called my mom yesterday to wish her a happy Mother's Day. I then sent her some money after the call. She didn't call or text to say whether she received the money or not. I even rechecked the message coz I had sent it from a bank app isikuwe I had sent it to the wrong number. I sent her five times more than what I send her on a normal day.

I called her in the morning, but she didn't pick up. Previously when I send her money, I always have to call two days later when she doesnt confirm if she received it. (she knows how to use her phone and she texts to say thank you akijiskia)

Last year I bought her a gift and got it sent home coz I am miles away. I called to ask how she found it and she didn't sound enthusiastic. It's something she loves but I felt like she just said thank you so that I would hang up after she complained about the gift.

I'm a middle child and I think maybe she doesn't love and appreciate me. I wouldn't say the same about my dad. He is the love of my life and blesses me every time I tell him ‘Nimekutumia kakitu ukunywe beer’. He even hands his phone to his friends to say hi to his girl. My mom talks to me hurriedly unlike my other siblings. I'm so vexed right now coz it feels like I am overthinking while at the same time I think she should at least say thank you. As you were.

Happy Mother's Day to yours.

30 Comments
2024/05/12
08:59 UTC

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Y’all should check out the provisions of the Finance Bill 2024

Some okay, some downright awful. Linking a good summary of it for y’all…take a look

2 Comments
2024/05/12
08:49 UTC

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Why is it that Africans who go to the USA do so well, yet African Americans do so poorly

Africans who go to USA do so well financially and career wise, coming in from 3rd world countries, they are new to the area, have no connections and don’t understand the systems well.

Within a short time, they are already doing extremely well. African Americans are still complaining how “systematic racism” is holding them back. Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans, South African and other African immigrant groups all have a higher median income than African Americans.

African Americans say it’s about racism, don’t African immigrants share the same skin colour?

123 Comments
2024/05/12
08:19 UTC

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Live Coverage of Pedalmania LITT - 12th May 2024

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2024/05/12
07:45 UTC

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Wanna hang out?

If you wanna meet new people or spend time with new people today hmu

25 Comments
2024/05/12
06:37 UTC

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