THE RELUCTANT OUTLAW; WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE COUNTRY’S BLACK SHEEP; THE STORY OF A KENYAN MATATU DRIVER.

photo:Matwana ( matatu culture ) on facebook

I can say they hate us. I know they do! My son goes to school and says; “my dad is a matatu driver.” He is like, “what? A matatu driver?’’ it hurts and one is never proud.

I am one of those you just love to hate. We are the backbone of Kenya’s black market. Expected to pay off everyone from police to criminal gangs. Perhaps you don’t have any idea what it is like to be the black sheep of a country.

But let me explain. We wake up every morning at 3 to bring milk to Nairobi. From there; we take cops who have been on night duties home. Then, we pick up newspaper vendors, company drivers, office workers and your school kids.

After we are done with you; we take your housewife or houseboy to their secret lovers. Then comes Sunday and the entire Christian community depends on us. The pastors ought to pray for us; seeing we are assisting in their missionary work. But instead; they condemn us for missing the Sunday service.

We are lucky that it is not them but God judges us. Otherwise, we could be the most cursed human beings on the face of the earth.

-donda254.wordpress.com

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