A lot of people hate the word Mboch, or housie - but rhetorically speaking, when two Kenyans communicate about the people who help them at home, they will normally refer to these people as "my housie", "our Mboch" "Mboch wetu" or the "house help"
If there is one thing Kenyans cant do without, I think it has to be a housie. Because labor in Kenya is pretty cheap and the jobs are pretty scarce a lot of the lower income classes have resulted to fall back on taking care of other families for some pay. To some these jobs provide them with the much needed shelter they don't have because most housies will stay in your servants quarters, or if you guys are middle class and don't have a servants quarter you will let her share the guest room down stairs.
A lot of these primitive behaviors were handed down to us by the British Colonies after they left us. They forgot to leave us a manual on how we can survive without a Housie, hence we are stuck and fairly insufficient without a Housie.
Housies are special in their own right, Male housie are even more special. But in as much as I would like to endulge in a conversation of things that distinguish one housie to an ordinary chile I think I will be kind and leave it at that.
However if you used Susana Pomade, or Took a Shower with Rexona and then used the same soap as lotion - then you probably have some Housie tendencies that need to be checked out.
