A KENYAN URBAN NARRATIVE

• Writing my Gikuyu Nation

  Posted: May 13, 2010, 9:20 pm by POTASH

  I was socialised Gikuyu.
  
  Growing up in the Kiambu of the eighties, all I ever wanted to be was a blinged out Gikuyu.
  
  I wanted the Datsun twero, the ‘Godfather’ hat, the cowboy boots.
  
  And when I heard that there was a Gikuyu, with a big bar in America called Kilimanjaro, I didn’t pause to marvel, just upgraded my dream. Me, two Friesians and a goat. Behind a picket fence in Dallas.

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Fish cakes

Alas a fish cake.

Yet more fish cakes

Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.

The end of the fish cakes