This is so petty, who is this Biko guy? I honestly read it and felt sorry for him. First of all not all Kenyans abroad are the same, there are those who go home and love every minute of it, and there are those who go back and hate every minute of it, then there are those who dont see any need to go home. So this guy trying to lump us all is just nonsensical. Secondly, who is he to tell us what we can and cant do? Ni kazi amekosa? I'm sorry, I will not start saying boot instead of trunk, or bonnet instead of hood and pronouncing "tomahto" instead of "tomayto" just to make this Biko guy comfortable. So he wants me to change the way I have been speaking for over 10 years, just so he can feel comfortable and appreciated? And he calls diasporans arrogant? Note to self,dont comment about anything, good or bad while in Kenya, NKT!!!

There is no accent in their host countries.main Reason; many Asian countries has retained their native languages as the only official means of communication. or how does Korean accent sound ??

@Tokyo you surely must have spoken English with you Japanese friends no?

Grammar with Japanese interference make for very interesting conversation. Tis from experience Got many Japanese friends.
There are some real Kurutu Indians and Asiane-Chinese in Nairobi when you spend alot of time with them they mess your grammer. Same thing applied to Spaniards!

Sorry mate, but the average Kenyan hunuka jasho, may be we just get used to this. Its understandable coz there ain't cash to waste on things like body sprays, and even if you shower, walking from kibra to inda at a steady pace does not help.

Jungus don't shower at all, infact we africans shower more regularly, but they do use alot of colognes

In defense of our brothers and sisters in the diaspora, those accents don't come coz they want to, but because if you use our Kenyan accent[s], all you get are pardons,i'm sorry, say what? etc.
Majority of Kenyans are blessed with good tongues, we got no heavy accents.
Nigerians can't hack it,it has nothing to do with their love for their mother land. That's a plus for us Kenyans, somethin to be proud of,having easy tongues.

So when Kenyans come back home with accents from whatever region, accept and move on. If you are to speak English,and you manage to speak it well,what's wrong with that?
It's like speaking swahili in a French accent, how is that right?

Word, wad, ward or

Whack, walk, work, are pronounced differently and their sounds should be distinct. In our Kenyan accent they sound more or less, the same.

Thing is, when you guys in diaspora come home, behave like you are back home and don't lecture us.
Atleast we haven't burned down your motherland, not yet.