‘Kenyan Time’

By Timothy K. Ndegwa

Najivunia kuwa Mkenya (Am proud to be a Kenyan) but this time I am a little

embarrassed to associate myself with Kenyans.

Fellow Kenyans, there is one way of telling time, by using the universal clock. But

it has been proven through out the world that Kenyans have a different source of

telling time.

Kenyans have turned to be event oriented and not time oriented. Recently I have been

to different Kenyan events particularly outside Kenya and like they say ‘you can

take a villager from a village, but you can not take a village from the villager’.

Kenyans are the ones that you see attending events late. They distract everyone by

tip toeing even to their own events.

It seems that any time you have an event; you have to give Kenyans a different time

from the official one. Why, because they are known to be late unless it has to be at

their work place where they are seldom tardy.

On a recent issue of Kenyan Empowerment Newspaper, Kenyans were late to attend a

speech by their own Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga in Harvard University. Ninety

eight percent of attendees were whites. Most of the Kenyans were locked outside

because they were late. Now they are blaming PM Odinga for ignoring them. He has a

schedule to keep by being on time.

When you visit white events, most of the time everyone is sited minutes before the

starting time. They respect time and their events end when they say it will end.

The Kenyan events start late because everyone is waiting for everyone. That is

punishing some of us who are time conscious. We will stay in the events until the cows go home and leave us in the fields!

Like my grandma WaMwoho (God rest her soul) used to say, ‘be careful that you are not late for your own funeral’

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Timothy K. Ndegwa

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