Mama Yako and similar insults

Siku Moja venye Moi alikuwa President, Muite made a very impressive contribution on the floor of the house. The opposition thumped their feet heavily as he took his seat.

Then a KANU member shouted, "Pattni!"

Muite curtly replied, "Mamako!"

Of course FX Ole Kaparo made Muite apologise.

A friend of mine is wondering:


Why is it that most are most pained with the slightest mention of their mothers?

Why should one be annoyed about being called *%#@@-(some part of a woman's anatomy?). Yet the same guy will fail to eat so that they get the same thing. Others will buy some female anything to get that thing. Sasa kwa nini iwe matusi?

Is it the same in other cultures away from Kenia and Africa?

My friend is taking studies in some social course hapo THE

The mother is an ambivalent symbol, she is both hated and loved. Hated for not keeping the perils of life away and loved for providing the greatest warmth we've experienced.

When it's your mother being referred to negatively, the anger hidden in you is stirred and you have to rush to cover it up by being angry at the abuser.

When you remember the breast and the womb, you give everything for a 'replay'.

And when you're in danger, you cry out, 'Mamaaa!'.

I find it really repulsive and disrespectful, when someone invokes the mother of the other in an argument. What has my mama got to do with it?

Wewe impunity apart from vumbi nini ingine inasumbua hio akili yako jamani?

Lets just agree that we are all clever like our mothers