Anyone who travels a lot knows the loneliness that follows, you're in a foreign country, you see someone with this band and your heart leaps.. you want to run and say an excited "Sasa!" and give them that bro hug.
This band is not representative of jubilee or tenderprenuers, nobody told anyone to wear it, their was no campaign, we were not told "wear it and jivunie kuwa mkenya".
Most Kenyans in the diaspora wear it and they are not chasing after govt contracts, its their identity. Which makes it very sad that the some people who claim to fight for Kenya online, destroy it for retweets and jokes.
We wore this band and found an identity with it that we own, that we can use to unify us and change the country. For once we have something that is positively Kenyan, not a national dress or cuisine, just a simple hand band that anyone from any tribe, color or religion can wear as a form of identity or gift to a visiting friend happily.
Did I mention its not made and sold by big brands but that it's made and sold by humble women who feed their families from that 200 Bob we spend on it and that the name #kenyatte (with a single t) actually Luo?
So when I see someone driving an idiotic negative narrative, trying to politicize it or give it a tribe, taking away the one positive identity we have and in the process attempting to killing an entire source of livelihood for the women countrywide, I want to slap someone back to the dinosaur age. Your jokes might be funny to you but not to the woman whos income will drop because of them.
Share this and keep your hand band. It's your flag, your identity, use it to remind yourself why we must keep fighting against corruption and tribal politics not to mention stupidity.
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