M-PESA

I hear there are days when a phone ringtone was literally answered by person by whiping out a classic rep flip phone to answer the call. Back then, the ‘flip’ or the ‘slide’ was the privilege among the creme de la creme. We are told the children of today will never get the joy of playing the game “Snake Xenzia” or bounce with the famous cell phones like Nokia 3310 or as we call them today “katululu”. It almost seems hieroglyphics to imagine writing makeshift emojis using semi colons, hyphen and parenthesis, or the weird “xaxa” texts and sending a disclaimer saying “usinitext nimerudisha simu”….