IN THE KENYAN BEDROOM
Have you thought of a bedroom before? I know you haven’t. But in case you have thought about it, I am more than certain that, what traversed and visualized in your wits was, “a bedroom is a slumbering place”. Simply because we have two words conjoined in one; a bed and a room. That’s a silly thought. Anyway, in your aptitude, you are right, but in my capacity, you are conclusively and stupidly wrong. Allow me today, to solve this bedroom riddle. Casually and literary, under the disguise of ‘civilization, a bedroom is a room and a bed. However, in reality, we all know that in our extreme and obvious life scenarios, we need not have a bed to call it a bedroom. Right? Regardless of whether you reside in a bungalow or a maisonette in the high end estates of Karen, in an apartment in Kilimani, in a flat in the densely populated drinking estate of Kahawa Wendani, or in the square shaped Mabati structures of Mukuru Kwa Njega, a bedroom is a bedroom; with a mattress, no mattress, w...