Most Kenyan homes have maids, popularly known as mboches. These are the women that help the homeowners with household chores and taking care of the children.
Interestingly, they all have different characters. Among the thousands of mboches in residential homes, you will find these seven common types:1. The Nollywood movies and soap operas enthusiast
This mboch can’t keep her hands off the remote control. She spends all day watching ‘Oga’ movies and Mexican telenovelas instead of working. She’s the reason KPLC keeps making huge profits. She’s so good at television arts that she can predict what’s going to happen next. She’ll say “Aki Alehandro atakiss Marimar. Sikudaganyi. Ngoja tu five minutes uone.” Five minutes later…Boom! It happens. As a result of her screen addiction, most of her chores are done late. Probably during the last two hours before the owner of the house arrives.
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2. The ‘Moshene Monger’
This is the maid whose mouth keeps firing from all cylinders. She plays the role of detective and media at the same time. She digs out info about ‘mama so and so’ then she rushes to tell her fellow monger who in turn formulates a hypothesis before adding information about ‘baba so and so’. What results is a mega story that could crush TMZ’s website! It’s crazy.
3. The ‘part of the family’ mboch
She does her work so well all the time that as a result, she is treated as part of the family. She never annoys her employers and always makes sure all their needs are met in good time. The kids love to see her too and are ever excited when she goes to pick them from school. They love playing with her as well. God bless this mboch.
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4. The future resident of heaven
This one is so holy, she has probably booked herself a bedsitter in heaven already and paid the deposit. Gospel songs are her thing and she still buys Rose Muhando’s ringtones at 30 bob. Her favorite hobby is wrestling with the kids for the TV’s remote control when they want to watch cartoons and she wants to watch the scratch filled gospel CD her church suitor gave her.
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5. The mboch that can’t keep up with town life
The city moves too fast for her. She can’t keep up with all the technology and the rush. She is used to the quiet rural life and as a result she keeps making all kinds of blunders. This is also the mboch who despite staying in Nairobi for a couple of years has been unable to ditch her ethnic accent. When she talks, you feel like laughing but then you remember that being mean is not cool at all.
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6. The mboch that does sinister things whenever the employers are away
This type of maid is fond of mischief. Whenever she is left alone at the home, she finds it appropriate to try on her madam’s clothes or bring her boyfriends over. The saying ‘when the cat is away, the mouse will play’ was clearly created for her. Unfortunately, she’s the type that gets fired wherever she goes.
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7. The mboch from hell
This is the mboch who acts like satan himself. She will beat and bully the kids when their parents are away, refuse to feed the baby or even eat the baby’s food. This is the mboch we all dread to have. She probably hates her life so much that she directs all her anger and bad energy towards the child. This mboch, has a special corner preserved for her in hell…
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