{"id":25991,"date":"2025-06-19T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barazalab.com\/?p=25991"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:52:46","slug":"a-city-of-gambles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/a-city-of-gambles\/","title":{"rendered":"A City of Gambles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26113 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-7-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-7-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-7-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-7-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-7-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-7-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For a lot of people who aren\u2019t familiar with the world of betting, they visualize it as what Hollywood has shown us over the years. Lots of glitz and glam and the basic Las Vegas scene. You might also think that it\u2019s for people who have lots of money that they can afford to lose\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, that is far from what the actual scene looks like. A closer look at Nairobi, at what has a lot of people glued to their phones, at the little shop between the other shops will show you just how deep and intricate this universe is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26114 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The first person we talked to is Victor, a watchman in the Nairobi Central Business District. He\u2019s 25 years old now and started betting at the age of 19. The watchman gig is his first job, and his colleagues are the ones who put him onto betting, starting with MultiBet and moving on up to Aviator in early 2024. He bets five days a week, once or twice a day, and says that it\u2019s important to him to self-regulate because it\u2019s easy to fall into addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26112 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-10-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-10-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-10-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-10-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-10-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-10-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-10.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When we meet him, he\u2019s just from placing a bet, and he told us how January has been such a bad month full of losses. The most he\u2019s lost since he started betting is 1,500 Kenya Shillings, which may not seem like a lot of money, but when your monthly salary is 11,000 Kenya Shillings a month, it is. He has also taken a small loan of 200 Kenya Shillings to place a bet, which he ended up losing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26115 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-4-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-4-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-4-1-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-4-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-4-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-4-1-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-4-1-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-4-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>His wins- except the one time when a game called Aviator helped pay his rent- haven&#8217;t been as significant, which doesn\u2019t seem to bother him as such. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seems that he bets just to bet, and he has tried to quit, but it\u2019s hard when almost everywhere you go, there\u2019s people betting or talking about betting.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ironically enough, people don\u2019t talk about their losses as loudly, or at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26116 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-15-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-15-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-15-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-15-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-15-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-15-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-15-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-15.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Next, we go into a betting shop, one you wouldn\u2019t ordinarily notice unless you have business that takes you there. It\u2019s just a room, with a counter at the end, and the walls have small TV screens lined up near the ceiling, and sheets with team names, odds, and whatnot taped to the wall. In the middle of the room are benches, and when you walk in, there\u2019s men seated on them staring up at the screens. Some are standing, and on the floor all around there\u2019s torn-up strips of paper. One man is ripping aslip slowly, not even looking at it, his eyes still on the screens, and in them you can see a mixture of disappointment and bland hope for the next one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26118 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-11-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-11-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-11-600x899.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-11-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-11-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-11-1026x1536.jpg 1026w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-11-434x650.jpg 434w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-11.jpg 1282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Vincent is a regular there, and he quit his job when he started betting because he was winning in two days what he\u2019d make in a month at his job. After some time, of course, his lucky streak ended, and his loved ones had to talk him into getting any other job he could find. He works in Marikiti Market now, and by ten am he\u2019s done with work and in the betting shop already.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He can easily bet on his phone, but he has a system where he places bets at the shop and then on his phone later on. We could say he comes for the sense of community, where everyone is doing the same thing as you are. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26117 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-12-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-12-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-12-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-12-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-12-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-12-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-12.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our next stop is somewhere deep in the CBD. We go up to the second floor of a building where there are vibandas on each floor and a lot of casual workers and freelancers eating there. We talk to Calvin, who\u2019s a cook in one of the hotels. He\u2019s 23 years old and got into betting when he was 15 years old after he was taught by a friend, and he started using his older brother\u2019s phone to bet on the Premier League.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He never bets more than 200 shillings, and he bets twice or thrice a day every day. He earns 700 shillings a day as a cook, and the most he\u2019s ever won is 1,500 shillings in 2021.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like Victor, he\u2019s tried to reduce the frequency at which he bets to maybe just a few days a week instead of daily, but he ends up going back to his old ways. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He hasn\u2019t ever tried to quit gambling completely, and hasn\u2019t considered what his life would look like without betting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26119 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-16-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-16-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-16-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-16-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-16-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-16-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-16-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betting-16.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The underbelly of Nairobi is full of everyday people going about seemingly ordinary lives, but what strings them together is the multiple betting sites that keep cropping up with very little regulation. People who are quitting their jobs for this and bottling up their feelings when they incur huge losses over it. People who have insane stories about what betting has done to them or what they have done because of it. People who think they are just in it for the big payday they think they\u2019ll get, and even when they do, they put it all back into betting or lose it all to betting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how much of a gamble is this, really?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Written by: Makena Ngito<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Photos by: Edwin Ndeke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0For a lot of people who aren\u2019t familiar with the world of betting, they visualize it as what Hollywood has shown us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-humans-project"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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