One thing Kenyans and Hispanics have in common is their love and fear for GOD. A great symbol of this fear and respect comes from trying to demarcate your home with any memorabilia and art of Jesus (please note, not Jesus - HESUS, I mean the real Jesus). Many Kenyans felt that having numerous pictures of Jesus or the Virgin Mary around the home would sorta protect the home and maintain the family values around religion or the stigma around faith.
The more popular framed picture was the "CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THIS HOME" piece that I believe was in virtually every house hold. Some catholics would call in the pastor (father) to come and bless their homes from time to time, he would sprinkle holy water through out the entire house, pray for the home. Sometimes when one of the children in the house became more deviant - prayers were the only way to go.
Way before Kanye West coined the TERM " Jesus piece" I think all Kenyans were rocking it in their homes!
ps. in the Late 80's one of the few things that freaked me out was this multi dimensional (2D) Jesus picture that would close and open Christs eyes based on what position you were looking at it from. So I recall my mom putting this picture ontop of the fridge and often before I stole something I would feel as though Jesus was watching me. It totally freaked me out... I eventually countered that by wearing a rosary all the time - and probably not stealing, but hey.. I was young.
