You question my heritage based on my fluency in English, despite it being THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of Kenya, and in the same breath boast about your fluency in what I presume is Luo? What the hell kinda colonial mentality is that? With that Christopher Columbus approach to social sciences it is no wonder you are drawing…

Who TF knows how many languages are spoken in their country? Ask your Kenyan friends, and if they get the answer wrong tell them that they can’t possibly be Kenyans. That is a terrible question to test nationality, and coming from a social scientist it is scary. If I was trolling you I’d have just googled it, as you…

What utter crap. Poor academic deductions.

You know that there are over 50 languages spoken in Kenya besides English and Swahili. Expecting all Kenyans to understand Kikuyu is like expecting the average American to speak Spanish. It is absurd and as a linguist you should know better.

Lol, you do you.

Derived from ithatu

For the record your suspicion that I have not lived long enough in Kenya is completely wrong - I am very much born and bred. The fare version was going around long before the internet came to Kenya. You can contact 100 Kenyans who will do what has been done so far - speculate. None of them, not even the seasoned…

Oh please... There you go continuing to make assumptions. I know very well that matatu is a Kikuyu word, just the way “woke” is English. I feel like I am being gaslighted here.

I grew up in Kenya and I am of Kenyan decent

Many popular terms break convention so I am puzzled by your insistance that liguistic correctness is definitive proof of one theory. I am not saying my sources are better than yours. I’m discounting your notion that the fare explanation came about starting 1990. And why does something only become valid when you find…

You’ve heard your explanation from two dozen or so people in the past six years. I grew up hearing from people who were there to see the introduction of Matatus.

The fare explanation is the one I regularly heard well before 1990. Just because the tuk tuk explanation works linguistically, it is not conclusive evidence that it is correct.

That is a theory I've never heard, that it was derived from tuk tuks. The fare explanation is the far more common one. I believe yours is nothing more than an opinion.

Kenya are serious Jalops!

They are second to Toyotas only if you spend your time in the Mara.

While the Land cruiser J70 and Defender are regarded as icons in Kenya just the way they are elsewhere, they not at the top of buyers’ lists. The SUVs of choice are Porsches, Range Rovers, Bentleys, Land cruiser VX and Prado, etc. As you go down the price range the preference remains for crossovers. Only those who…

Mud facial?

Forgot to state that the interior bits in the JDM RS were from the van version.

Counterpoint: The first Impreza was a handsome fella.

I think the roof is only available as an option on the Five. The five has the 17 in wheels but no way to know for sure. I believe it comes with the technology package. Buy the RAV4 hybrid instead. That's what I will do.