Unhealthy religiosity
I’m in Nairobi in a hotel where I’m putting up for the night. The room has a TV set programmed to the digital free to air stations. Here are what is going on on TV:
Pillar TV - Two white ladies jesusing
Weru TV - Bad Yesu songs
Biashara TV - Low volume with some sorry-looking “entrepreneur” talking about being blessed
Metropol TV - Trite motivational pop narrations peppered here and there with Joel Osteen’s voice
Utugi TV- Incomprehensibly bored panelists slumped on uncomfortable chairs talking in some language
Weru TV - (appears again with the monotonous Yesu songs)
KBC Channel 1 - Chinese News channel
Jambu TV - Same as Weru TV Jesusing
Focus TV - Jesusing
Ace TV - African-American themed movie full of the profane
Al Huda TV - Preaching sheikh
Mahdi TV - preaching sheikh with a hint of English accent
Raia TV - Badly acted swahili story
KTN Burudani - Same as above but with exaggerated mouth and body movements
Doxa TV - An American church choir
Kyeni TV - An jesusing interview
Farmers TV - Buffalo rearing lesson from a presenter with heavy Indian accent
Fanaka TV - A young nondescript dj jesusing on an interview
PPP TV - Borderline female nudity of African girls with bad music in the background
Faith TV - The name is it- jesusing
Champion TV - white people Christian movie
Family TV - Preaching
KTN TV - Documentary featuring short-changed farmers
K24 - A couple of fatties trying to outdo each other faking American accent in an interview
Edu TV - DW health program in German with English voiceovers
Inooro TV - Bad acting
Citizen TV - ads upon ads and a Mexican soap
KU TV - Almost acceptable South African pop music
NTV - some Christian pop music show with black people dressed in white
Meru TV - Bad Yesu music
Heritage TV - Bad picture, worse sound, interview
France 24 - French propaganda veiled as International news
Njata TV - turban-wearing man obviously jesusing
HCK TV - white man in his 50s jesusing
Hope TV - white bespectacled man seated jesusing
Switch TV - teenage stuff with bad dancing
Kwese Free Sports - Talk show
KTN Home - Nigerian-hosted talk show with nothing to offer
Mt Kenya TV - bad Yesu songs
Sasa TV - some man jesusing
Kameme TV - bad acting
Y254 TV - American drugs and clubbing violent movie
MBCI TV - jesusing man commanding “germs and bacteria to wither and die” in Jesus name!
Maajabu TV - Jesusing
Gikuyu TV - badly voiced over ancient movie
3 Stones TV- badly voiced over ancient movie again
CTN TV - white people Christian movie
Lolwe TV - a good Morgan Freeman movie
What is wrong with you people? Is it a wonder you’re doing this badly at everything progressive in this age?