Kenyans Mad At The Netflix Series Shot Partly In Kenya! This is Why.

Last month, we had to contend with the global troll that made Nairobi look like a little, pathetic city in the corner of some un-discovered realm. It was the  night that Nairobi went live on popular app, Snapchat. I was particularly peeved that some westerners were so naive to think that we kept lions and leopards as pets..Really? Retards much? 

 But then again, like the hospitable lot we are, we moved on, un-deterred by what the age old norms have taught us to call “the eyes of the frogs that stop not the cow from partaking in a stream” –  we latched onto the new cool, the netflix series, that the media had erstwhile reported would put Kenyan on the world map. (as if we’d die if it didn’t).The sense8 was on all levels, the coolest thing after Lupita’s debut on hollywood. If featured , among random derelict estates within Nairobi the legendary Ngara, globe roundabout. 

But while we may have been happy at being on the world map, turns out that we were put out there in a skewed frame. The series (this is a spoiler) portrays Nairobi as a dangerous place, teeming with evils, drugs, aids and hunger. 

I mean, they even missed the fact that Nairobi, the city under the sun, is one of the only cities with a game park within its demarcations? And how dare they miss the socialites? And parliament? What about Uhuru park, or central park? Did you people even sample the nyamchom at the Njuguna’s?

But. People see what they love to see. You might want to see the series. The plot is awesome.. The Nairobi parts? Not completely un-palatable. 

If it might interest you,The show has a respectable 8.4 rating on IMDB and a 4.1 on netflix out of 400,000 votes not bad for a series that is barely a month old. 

Here is a trailer of the series that you might like:

 Below are snippets of the series feel free to sift through. 

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