some of us are a God forsaken lot.
We don't even qualify to be referred to as classy.

Ruggedy it is.

@Sikujali,

Your last paragraph is harsh.
If you compare your life with others, 2 things will happen.
1.Feel superior
2.Feel inferior
Then one comes up with false judgements.

Whether we like it or not, there are people who will choose to spend on anything because it's their money.
You cannot for instance stop the likes of Abramovich from building yachts like game.
They got the cash and a whole Industry to cater for such people only! not everybody.
Woe unto you if you try to do the same with your meagre income.
My advice? stick to your league and never try to be what you are not.
And you shall live happily thereafter.

Walalalalala..... from previous definitions, i didnt even need to read twice.. nimejiona pap!! kanyumba kakurent, outskirts za Jiji.... JALOPY! ....Jalopy? woishe my humble KA* is indeed a Jalopy

im a spit away from category:poor?
Yaani umaskini iko hapa na hapa na mimi..doesnt take much: just a single glance & i fall into category poor?

lets do this... lets create a special class and lump the Ndegwas & Kenyattas there.. then we split Upperclass into upper and lower.. move current uppermid to upper class & create new group describing lower upper.. kisha everybody else remaining moves a step up.. Hivyo hata mimi nihepe 'one glance behind to poverty'.
Maskini add them more groups eg Hohehahe, hobelahobela...chakari

i know its late, but if we pass my motion above into bill; nobody will lynch us...

As for some of the stratification criteria am seeing here....it just smacks bits of ignorance and a minimalist view of how one may perceive wealth versus being rich. So how will you classify a person living in donholm and owns 200 acres of wheat and barley farm in Uasin Ngishu (eldoret) with a combine harvester and a pickup but drives a toyota saloon when in Nairobi ? or one living in Ngumba and has 1000 plus heard of livestock in Marsabit but commutes to work. plus many other ordinary examples in places in and outside of Nairobi.

What is strikingly peculiar though is that Kenyan habit having of trying to put someone in a box and labeling it( albeit wrongly most of the time) oooh he lives in runda he is rich oooh he drives a jalopy he is poor ..and so much more none sense like the way some ass kiss whites thinking they are superior or something like that. That is peculiarly Kenyan and something that be taken advantage for to good use by clever chaps.
So just get on with life and let people spend their monies.

...i vote aye lol

Given the American definition, one needs to get the wage distribution data. From the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, then mathematically the middle class can be defined as anyone earning between Kshs 8,000 ($100) and Kshs 25,000 ($314) dollars per month. This translates to an earnings range of Kshs 96,000 ($1,200) and Kshs 300,000($3,750) per annum.