Amazing comradeship & camaraderie in the land of opportunities & physical freedom

These were the thoughts that came to my mind when a group of six young men chatting animatedly caught up with me on my early late evening walk along one of the many tarmaced roads in lower Dagoretti South.

From the young men’s dialect and my interaction with various languages in this part of the wider Kiambu County, also known officially as Nairobi County, I deduced that they chatting in either Kinyarwanda or kiburundi…

Each of the men was pushing a wheelbarrow well covered in black polythene sheets. They were returning home from a day of hawking their wares which I have observed in the past to include new & second socks, vests & men’s inner wear items among others…

The young men were walking quickly and energetically up to a point a few metres ahead where they all diverted into a cabro – laid feeder road and my visual interaction with them ended… Then I thought, “most likely these young men are friends who stay in the same dwelling space or in different dwellings near but each other.”

As I reflected further, I greatly admired the determination and initiative in the futyoung men out to eke a living in a faraway land.

… Pushing wheelbarrows and trying to sell almost similar products & ware with none afraid that his ware may not be bought exemplifies sheer hope for  life and a better  future. Perhaps their determination and handiwork is fuelled by their reality of being homeless in a strange, foreign land…. And their realities that none else will fend for them especially in a foreign land.

In reflection, i also thought: “the young men should challenge some Kenyan young men who opt to laze around and a country of physical idle doing nothing for a living and even later get entrapped in drugs and alcoholism and later end up frustrated in utter hopelessness.

Further, i reflect…”Kenya is, indeed, a wonderful country full with opportunities and where many people, from different countries, are welcome to work to and live responsibly.”

“Kenya is indeed a country of physical freedoms where, especially in urban areas, people can settle and work to their full satisfaction and to earn integrity and give their lives meaning.” “a country where people can live in harmony as each individual minds his or her own business.”