28/10/2024
How the modern Kenyan man eats:
At 6 AM
A large mug of tea (with half a kilo of sugar)
White bread slathered in Blue Band margarine
Samosas from a roadside vendor
Proceeds to scroll through WhatsApp groups, forwarding memes before heading to work.
At 10 AM
"Strong tea" (more milk than water, plus sugar)
Mandazi or chapati
A boiled egg, if feeling fancy
Yawn deeply, look around for no reason, and claim it’s time for a "small break."
At 1 PM (Lunch hour)
Mountain of ugali
Overcooked sukuma wiki swimming in oil
Beef stew with more bones than meat
Soda the size of a small fire extinguisher
By now, he’s exhausted—looks for a shaded tree and sits in silence for 20 minutes, blaming "too much work" for the fatigue.
At 4 PM
More tea
A plate of chips with questionable sausage
Or a piece of roasted maize dipped in salt
Heads back to the office but accomplishes nothing productive, except scrolling Twitter.
At 7 PM (Dinner)
Ugali, again
Nyama choma (with enough fat to grease a truck engine)
Kachumbari drowned in vinegar
More soda
Proceeds to talk politics for 2 hours, vigorously defending leaders he’s never met.
At 10 PM
A final cup of tea
Leftover mandazi or a banana
A handful of roasted peanuts
Lies in bed, tossing and turning, wondering why he’s so tired despite doing nothing all day. At midnight, he checks his phone again, scrolling through TikTok until his eyes close.
Wakes up in the morning, groggy and irritated, swearing that today will be different. But the cycle repeats—tea, ugali, soda, and naps.
And yet, the Kenyan man wonders why he's always tired, irritable, pot-bellied, and blames witchcraft for his problems instead of poor diet.