"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.
They are young, beautiful and live on the fast lane — enjoying every city luxury, yet their monthly pay is peanuts, writes Shirley Genga. The Nairobi woman is barely 23, but she lives in a Sh55,000 apartment in Kileleshwa. She wears shoes worth Sh4,000 (in five different colours); her handbags cost Sh6,000 and her long fake European hair costs a whopping Sh8,000 to attach. She has an iPhone 4 or the latest gadget that everyone in town lusts for. She drives a new red Toyota Ist and, to top it off, has an accent that can easily be confused as American yet she has never stepped out of the country. When she goes out with her girlfriends, she pays a Sh20,000 bill without blinking — yet she barely earns that in a month. Brilliant budgeting? Nah! Shrewd saving skills? Of course not! If you examine her life closely, you realise her rich lifestyle can all be attributed to one thing: ‘Multitasking’. To survive today’s tough economy, young Nairobi women have taken multitasking to a new level by ‘triple dealing’ — dating three, or even more men depending on their financial ambitions. Their excuse? You cannot eat love.
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