Onge Ringo

Proverbs of Jealousy and Poverty Mentality

1. I can't buy a car on loan

2. Siwezi nunua gari kabla nijenge

3. She is educated but she can't find a man to marry her

4. They have a lot money but they have never known peace in their house

5. He has a degree and yet we still tarmac together.

6. That dress she says that she bought at 10k costs 1500 in Eastleigh and the Eastleigh one is much better

7. She got that job after sleeping with the boss

8. He drives a Mercedes but he lives in Kinoo. I think the vehicle belongs to this boss and he is just a driver

9. iPhone is overrated . It's just like Kabambe. Simu ni simu

10. His wife is older than him . It's money that confused him

11. She /he doesn't have a job. I always find her/ him online. Look at the kind of stuff he / she shares online

12. She got another baby even before the other one joined play group

13. Demio is not a car. It's better I use a bodaboda

14. She thinks running a business is easy in this city. She will just close down and come back here.

16. I don't know how she manages to live with such a cheating husband.

17. I hear that he joined defo worship. He has a big snake in his house

18. He is controlled by his wife. It's the wife who makes decision in that house

19. Those kids are not his. They don't even resemble him. Kwanza haka kadogo.

20. Wataachana tu

21. Mnakuwanga Wa-expee. Hamna Bei nyingine?

22. Having read 1-21 ,go look for money uwachane na maisha ya watu hata wewe methali zitembee. Range Rover sport owners don't use such proverbs

The greatest want of the world is the want of men,men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inermost souls are true and honest; men who do notfear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.--Education, p. 57. (1903)