NYAKENYA WAIRIMU: GULLIBLE KENYANS (yes we are)

We were all brought up believing in an Omnipresent God before we changed to believing in what we believe in today. So,before I go on baseless rant here, I would like to confirm that yes, I am a believer of the Holy Trinity(The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit) and yes I know that there is power in prayers, am a living testimony of it, the almost tangible feeling of relief when you cast your burdens unto the Lord and letting him fight my battles. I may not go to church every Sunday but I have a very close relationship with my Creator and so yes am going to take this opportunity and ignore science and the whole evolution story.

So there is this Victor Kanyari's story doing rounds in social media. I even heard that the DVD is selling like hot cake and I am very sure it has made some believers to sit in the congregations not paying too much attention to what their spiritual leaders are saying but rather looking for hints and clues that they are not for real and that they are just like VK. I do not dispute the fact that there are times we get cornered by situations, those moments when our prayers seems like they're not working or reaching heaven and we become so uncertain of our future. The thing is, we all have problems and yes we all need help but some of us pass the point of help. Searching for answers everywhere and anywhere will only result to our curiosity being paid off by cruelty then we get filled with regrets. Really; you meet someone in the streets and they tell you to give them your money claiming they'll multiply it and you give them! Why cant you ask yourself the simple question ; 'if they can really do that, why haven't they done it for themselves to get off the streets?' Someone asking for money to perform miracles and Christians pay?! I wonder which Bible people are reading because even Jesus performed miracles for free. It's a society where people want to be successful so badly that they stop thinking and that is why we will continue to meet the Victor Kanyari's in their different forms and styles and wait for Jicho Pevu to give us those rude wake-up calls.

We are a very confused if not confusing society, a very toxic one. A society where people are so bitter, angry, salty and very much ready to transfer their frustration to the person who dares to twitch, make a comment or even look towards their direction! A society that has men turning their heads to look at the; light skinned ladies, bootylicious' ladies, boobylicious' ladies in the streets but on the other hand start name calling on Vera Sidika when she decided to have them all in one package and strip women of their clothes. A society where people shamelessly wants to be your BFF even if they resisted and fought you in the beginning of your journey. A society where people only want to be associated with things that are big and luxurious and the already successful humans!A good example is the Lupita Nyong'o's story when she started her acting career in Kenya but since now she has awards in her name and has gained a lot of titles she is proudly ours now...

The other example is the Nigerian movies. When our film industry was busy trying to compete with Hollywood faking and forcing some serious British accents and most of the time programs that were not relevant to most of us, wondering what name to give, Kenwood or riverwood, the Nigerians, came out proudly and started doing films..serious balanced films true to who they are and instead of the fake accents, they used their own pidgin English proudly. Kenyans being Kenyans, we went on critic rampage and termed it as not cool. What is happening today though? Our artistes want to sound Nigerian, forcing the pidgin English accents and our actors? Nollywood is currently their Hollywood, their definition of success. They now want to feature in the Nigerian films so bad. I will not even talk about our girls with the west African men.

Its us to change, which I can already tell that is falling on itchy ears. Lets grow because if we jump we'll never believe. Lets mold and develop things and not wait when someone else has done it to start doing the copy and paste' thing'...