“Liar! Victim Of White Savior Complex!”Madonna Gets Harshly Rebuked For Her Demeaning Comments About Kibera This is What She Said

Madonna has been around for a couple of days but it already feels like she has overstayed her welcome and abusing the generosity or in this case the knowledge of her hosts.

Well, at least that is the feeling you get from many of the comments by Kenyans on her page after one of her post insinuated that people from Kibera get drinking water straight from a filthy, polluted section of a stream.

While Kenyan’s appreciated the fact that Kibera being a slum has a poor garbage disposal system, they however felt she had gone to the extreme in stating to her followers that water for human use is obtained from such places. The replies ranged from the sarcastic to the downright mad and disgusted.

Many did remind her and others that water in all of Nairobi Kibera included is supplied by the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company.

They pointed out that while each household does not have tapped water they can and do access clean water from several central tap points buying it in gallons. Well, either Madonna chose intentionally to go for the hyperbole to elicit the requisite emotion for funding or her guide decided to misinform her because there is no way any human would survive using such filthy water for anything.

It was just plain ignorance and uncalled for given her influence and huge following she just helped continue the myth of the whole of Africa being one huge slum with no functioning systems. Here is what she shared and some of the angry responses: