Betting is becoming a mental disorder here, someone stop it!
Unlicensed gambling machines that were impounded in Nairobi on June 18, 2018. The betting craze has caught on in the East African region. FILE PHOTO | NMG
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressel, 1914) could have been written with us in mind. Tressel wrote only one known book, but it has remained a classic in its genre (George Orwell called it a “social history”).
It simply takes a long and hard look at a group of proletarians in a small English town, clearly unable to feed themselves properly, but engaged in the business of enriching their exploiters, and unwilling (or unable) to contemplate a situation much different from what they have been socialised into.
