I have to start this article with
a disclaimer, lest I be condemned for being un-African. I am an African and
very proud of that fact but in my life, I have taken those bits of my African
heritage that suited me and adopted them as part of my lifestyle, and decided
to let those that I could not stomach lie. I have been very blessed in my life
to be able to weave in and out of various cultural experiences, and in my
day-to-day life engage with friends, family, acquaintances, colleagues and
other people that continue to teach me their cultures and ways of life. Since I
have been back to the land of my birth, Kenya, I have engaged, once again with
the culture that I was raised in and this article summarizes some of the things I find
strange as well as wonderful about my culture: