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Last week I travelled to Nairobi to attend the Panasonic Africa Systems exhibition and stayed at the luxurious Sarova Stanley hotel.
I was sitting at the Thorn Tree restaurant of the hotel when the manager walked up to my table and asked if I was from Uganda.
"How can you tell? Is it my big head? My nose or the way I roll my tongue?" I asked.
"No, it is the way you are dressed. Ugandan women are usually very smart. They take time to dress up for whatever function or place they are going to. This is unlike Kenyan women who just get out of the shower, strap on whatever and go.
They are always in a hurry and if they are to take time in the mirror, it is only for a particular person. They dress for someone not for the occasion," he said.
He went on to say that in Kenya, people step out of the office into the bar or club to party the night away. However, in Uganda people get out of office, drive back home for a shower and change of clothes no matter how far out of town they live.
Yes, it is true that Ugandan women really do mind their appearance and take time in the mirror to slap on powder, concealer, mascara, and different shades of eye shadow. In fact, when a couple of smartly-dressed women walked into the restaurant, they were indeed Ugandan.
I heard them speak Luganda and Runyankore on phone and I met some at the airport catching the same flight home.
But the thing is, while Kenyan women do not have time to doll up, this is because they are rushing somewhere for more important things in life; beat the jam, beat a deadline, be in time for a meeting and generally anything that will make them move up the corporate ladder.
So, before you go all happy that the men like how we dress, women in Kenya would rather be seen as career-driven women than dolled-up party animals.
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