Kenya is one of the places where there is huge gap between ‘the have s’ and ‘the have-nots’. There are varying degrees of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ but nothing in between. I know that our family fall within the haves and one thing I can say is that there is certain amount of class based snobbery that exists amongst the haves. <\/p>\n

I know one of my prejudices is centered on where I socialise when I am Kenya. There is no way you would find me in any pub\/bar\/club that has in its title either or any of the following words..”ka-mwangis” “bar and butchery” “board and lodging” and “usikojoe hapa”. <\/p>\n

Coming to Belize has really made me aware of this particular prejudice especially when I was in Cayo. Most of the bars and clubs, in fact nearly all their structures have that “bar and butchery” look – rickety wooden structures, mabati roofs, pools of stagnant water near the entrance, extremley loud music and even louder conversation which can be heard twenty streets away. <\/p>\n

When I first arrived at Legends nightclub in Cayo I was petrified and that was just on the outside. To add to that I was with the Croc Wrestler and of course everyone stopped to stare at lone white person in the club. After five minutes..I calmed down and had such a good time and if you have been following my blog you will know I was back at Legends the weekend after and the weekend after that!<\/p>\n

I am not sure if you will ever catch me at Ka-Mwangi’s when I am in Kenya but I certainly won’t avoid them like I used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenya is one of the places where there is huge gap between ‘the have s’ and ‘the have-nots’. There are varying degrees of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ but nothing in between. I know that our family fall within the haves and one thing I can say is that there is certain amount of class based snobbery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[88,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-73","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-belize","7":"category-race","8":"tag-belize","9":"tag-race","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Y7Vr-1b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}