No doubt that indeed Eric Omondi is the most hilarious Kenyan comedian.
Watching this guy perform always like ever brings the entire audience into a
lifelong laughter, insatiable and real. The guy has the best recipe it takes to
blow off the entire roof with thunderous laughter amidst cheers from the crowd.
As a matter of 'IT IS' the guy has indeed added spice to the laugh industry. At
any one time the slender (1GB) young man is on stage, an air of jubilance,
excitement and utter enjoyment rents the atmosphere. Any performance from him literally
leaves the crowds gasping for air leave alone hurting the ribs.
One thing I never fail to note in every of such comical performances is how
the entire audience unites in eternal oneness. Just everyone has to laugh
including the few who never quite understand the joke. These are the few
moments when everything else is laid aside in wholeness. This is indeed one of
the reasons why comedy is to me the best options in any menu.
The specimen I want our lenses to capture in all these is the atmosphere of unity,
peace and harmony that prevails in such instances. Not a single element of
disparity comes into play. With all the colossal differences in the crowd,
laughter justifiably remains just that. They all voluntarily display their
varied sets of dental formula because "it is funny”. That’s all! They have
a course which is neutrally unifying. At such a moment the woman laughs as the man,
the rich as the not-so-rich, the fat as the slim, the brown as the dark, the Kikuyu
as the Luo,the Kamba as the Luhya,the ODM as the TNA,the Christians as the
Moslems-Kenyans. Whatever polarization does not matter and is not cognizable.
The sparkle that glows is that of solemn togetherness and unity. All joined
into oneness on a common course. It is not lost to wishful thinking that the
status quo would remain in eternity. If only Kenyans would assume the spirit
and think, plan and act solely on the common epicenter of being Kenyans!!If
only our politics were played in the single line of issues ailing our country
and just that! Imagine a Kenya built on common facts and agenda. Where
tribalism is nowhere is our national dictionary. A country where every Kenyan
is treated on the basis of being Kenyan rather than from which region
he/she hails from. A nation where we count on leadership and not individuals.
The same way the slim young guy sets the all and sundry laughing. Regardless of
his age, size,color,religion,tribe,race,lifestyle etc;Eric Omondi makes the
audience laugh. Nobody even takes time to study his brown-dyed hair which my
grandmother could rightly mistake for malnourishment!!
Guys, it is time we started acting under the common brand of KENYA and just that.
Long forgotten should be days when it was all about protecting the interests
of "our tribe”. Back then when a Kamau would not marry Achieng' nor
Mekatilili court Lonyang'puo, tribalism overrode everything else. Currently
things have changed a bit. Nevertheless, tribal affiliation remains at the helm
of every aspect in our lives, but fact be told-it is long overdue and
need be overhauled.
Common sense dictates that nobody made a choice on what tribe they
would want to belong to. That tells you that you as well have been Cherono as
you are Mutiso or Shitanda as you are Mohammed. The logic of being superior to
the other from the tribal point of argument is thus highly unfounded and wishful.
The 'him/she' could just have been you as well!!Achievements and/or endowments
are superficially coincidental and fateful and should never be biased to
reflect superiority. The same way the length of your name has little to do with
your height, InspectorMwala is very short whereas my friend Job is dangerously tall.
In the same breath, don’t imagine that because you come from a tribe known
for prowess in hunting you can automatically make the best herders. That will
be an illusion and an optimistic misconception that will never yield. God
is most fair and calculating. He gives A this and B that. I doubt I ever need
to remind you that unity is strength-it is far much common than I can type
here.
Day dreaming of jovial Kenyans united in cheering achievements like done to
our comedian is relieving and fulfilling. That imagination of a Kenya nation
glued together by love and acceptance for our national display is excellent.
That miracle that can transform the "my people/our people" to
"my country/our country" is absolutely healing and desirable. I can
but only imagine!!But it is attainable-if only you and I could embrace the
spirit of ‘IT IS’(funny,true,sensible,good,bad etc) and shun of the ‘I/WE ARE’
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