Can you imagine an englishman, frenchman, polishman, japanese etc abandoning his mother tongue and adopting a foreign language like spanish or russian, kikuyu? Then why should a kikuyuman deep in central abandon his mother tongue, the language of his people and adopt the language of his colonial masters who live thousands of miles away?

Because a Kikuyuman is fighting a Luoman over trivial tribal differences. The Frenchman is not fighting another Frenchman along tribal lines. If we only spoke Swahili in Kenya, do you think we would have all these tribal clashes? Wouldn’t it not be easier for a previously Kikuyuman man who now only speaks Swahili and only identifies himself as a Kenyan and not Kikuyu, to be able to buy land in Ugenya and settle there? How has that Kikuyu helped that Kikuyuman other than having him and his tribesmen get slaughtered in Rift Valley every election time?

I shocked some very rich Kikuyu wazee one time when we were to enter into a business deal. We had a meeting where they started telling me in Kikuyu how us Kikuyu need to support each other and make sure we protect our wealth and not entertain other tribes who want to do business with us. I told them right in their faces that I will not be part of that because I am not a bigot. I do businesss with everybody and I have friends from all tribes and I will never ever even for one minute betray my friends and business partners from other tribes by scheming to bring them down behind their backs. Needless to say, the wazees didn’t give me the business but I didn’t care because after the dust settled, I could still hold my head up high with my pride as a Kenyan. Tribes are a cancer whether you guys want to admit it or not. They do more harm than they do good.

So why don’t the Canadians or French slaughter each other? They only speak one language.

Somali clans are essentially their tribes. Clans are even worse than tribes because they are more primitive. You don’t see these tribal clashes nonsense in Sweden or Denmark. Why?

I have never spoken my mother tongue, mostly because I can’t speak it even though I understand it. I basically only speak English and Swahili. How has not knowing my mother tongue affected me? Am happy and content with my life minus the mother tongue. How would being able to speak Kikuyu have benefitted my life?

Wewe you’ve still never gone to see a shrink until today?

Don’t need your prayers and you don’t need to feel sorry for me for not knowing how to speak Kikuyu. Why would you feel sorry for me? What the hell? It’s not like I don’t have arms and legs for you to feel sorry for
me. Jesus, not knowing my mother tongue is now a handicap that needs prayers? The level of stupidity for some religious Kenyans is amazing. What exactly would you be praying for me for? I don’t get it.

Does it mean that you can’t instill moral virtues into children who don’t speak your mother tongue? Wonders never cease.

Those children that you are teaching your mother tongue might very well turn out to be the wazees like the ones I met that are disgustingly tribal. Am glad my parents never taught me Kikuyu, the little I know I learnt here and there. Maybe that’s why I am very uncomfortable around people who speak Kikuyu or Luo or whatever language in the presence of people from other tribes. How isn’t that not ignorant? People who’ve approached me with that Kikuyu shit know better next time they meet me. I don’t mince my words, I tell them to cut that shit out and sure enough, when we meet again, they always remember to speak in Swahili or English, a language that everybody around us understands.