Premiered on 23 Mar 2026 Kisses From Kenya

EPISODE 8: Left, Right, Center

In Kenya, the driver sits on the right, the traffic comes from the left, and nothing you learned at home quite prepares you. Vuyanzi and Brendan use that disorientation as the entry point into a bigger conversation: what happens when the political and cultural assumptions you built your life on get quietly, thoroughly flipped?

In this episode:

• Whose America Is It Anyway? - a deep-red Tennessee district shows signs of life; a U.S. president, 85 deaths, no due process, and a pardoned drug trafficker
• Crossing the Road in Kenya - driving on the left, bodas from every direction, silent prayers in Ubers, and what it means to reprogram your instincts
• Deep Dive - how living abroad forces you to confront your automatic assumptions and find your own centre when the world feels reversed
• Lost in Translation - "HELLO???" and what Kenyan urgency sounds like to American ears
• Queer & Black Joy - a friend visiting from Pennsylvania; mixing worlds; joy as resistance

Democrats Abroad Kenya | Expat life Nairobi | Living in Kenya | American abroad | Black diaspora | Queer expat | U.S. politics from Africa | Nairobi driving | Boda boda culture

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