Apparently we are staying at Nairobi's analog of Jack Abramoff's Signatures. Camped out across from us this afternoon in our office / lounge was a group of boisterous guys, loudly counseling each other on the best strategy for acquiring money (apparently $10M is decent start) and then what to do with it (the consensus was to invest it in land). It would've seemed a normal conversation among a group of young, ambitious businessmen sitting in the lounge of a flagship hotel in any major city in the world, except there were references to "constituents" peppered throughout the debate.
After they left I asked the Kenya-based consultant working with us who they were. Turns out the ringleader of the group was Raphael Wanjala, a former Member of Parliament who was arrested in India with a suitcase full of US dollars and the 24 year-old Kenyan wife of a wealthy Nigerian businessman.
Turns out it was all a big misunderstanding. He was simply on a business trip, and there was no scandal because his affair was being carried out within the bounds of customary law. As he summed it up: "Kenyatta had five wives. The father of US president Barack Obama had several wives. I can marry as many wives as I want. No man can claim he does not have a girlfriend outside marriage."
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CK, someone once told me that the Chinese word for happiness has symbols representing a man, a woman, and a roof. The Chinese word for unhappiness has symbols representing a man, 2 women, and a roof.
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