This week, I stumbled across this comedian on TikTok called Wa Kairu, a young man whose skits almost made me rupture a vein. I laughed so hard, I had to stop watching him. It was one of those slow evenings at work and I was feeling antsy, waiting for work that wasn’t coming fast enough, so, I decided to cure my idleness with social media. Turns out that this hilarious personality, whose skits are in mother tongue, has been around for some time and has a huge following. When it comes to some things, I’m a late bloomer, which explains why I just discovered him.
Anyway, I could especially relate to one of the acts, which depicted what goes on in many homes during meal times, specifically the serving that each member of a family gets. For those who aren’t familiar with the parody, Wa Kairu plays a very rural Kikuyu woman/mother, though if you asked me, the character might as well be representative of all our mothers, in spite of which community they come from. But I was talking about food.
