{"id":134575,"date":"2020-05-19T14:17:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=134575"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:15:03","slug":"%c2%a8i-struggled-to-fit-in-kenya%c2%a8-victoria-rubadiri-sadly-recalls-after-her-long-stay-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/%c2%a8i-struggled-to-fit-in-kenya%c2%a8-victoria-rubadiri-sadly-recalls-after-her-long-stay-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a8I struggled to fit in in Kenya,\u00a8 Victoria Rubadiri sadly recalls after her long stay abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well sought-after Kenyan journalist, Victoria Rubadiri had a hard time trying to fit in the USA, coming from an African country and after 14 years abroad, fitting into the Kenyan community proved a challenge as well.<\/p>\n<p>If there is something undeniably notable about the ravishing 33-year old journalist, must be her foreign accent, that only enthralls you the more.<\/p>\n<p>Back on track, Vicky is of mixed race, actually multiple&#8211;race, but her ancestry in Malawi and Kenya is proven. Atleast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50752\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/victoria-rubadiri-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50752 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/victoria-rubadiri-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/victoria-rubadiri-1.png 598w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/victoria-rubadiri-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/victoria-rubadiri-1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NTV journalist, Victoria Rubadiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At just 10 years of age, the then-little girl had to adapt to a different environment &#8211; America &#8211; amidst her \u00b4funny accent\u00b4 and \u00b4funny name\u00b4 &#8211; that she says.<\/p>\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/i-gave-up-being-the-typical-single-mum-victoria-rubadiri-speaks-single-parenting\/\">I gave up being the typical single mum \u2013 Victoria Rubadiri speaks single parenting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This saw her struggle to fit into the American culture and community as a whole.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">I\u2019ve always wanted to fit in. I\u2019ll admit it\u2019s been a weakness of mine. I guess it stemmed from that insecure 10-year-old Kenyan girl trying to find a place in this \u2018New World,\u2019 called America. My \u2018funny accent,\u2019 and \u2018funny name,\u2019 would ensure my square peg would never fit in their round holes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Things supposedly went her way and life started becoming normal for her in the States.<\/p>\n<h2>Return to Kenya<\/h2>\n<p>14 years down, the line, she returned to Kenya complete with a degree and ready to kick-start her career in the East African country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133712\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-10.55.10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-133712 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-10.55.10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"1041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-10.55.10.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-10.55.10-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renowned TV journalist, Victoria Rubadiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, it wasn\u00b4t going to be as easy as she presumed. Remember, she had spent a solid 14 years overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The people she had exchanged thoughts and ideas with and most especially the culture she had inherited was nothing like the Kenyan culture.<\/p>\n<p>She now had to re-learn the Kenyan people, their practices and way of life &#8211; if at all she desired to \u00b4fit in\u00b4.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134609\" style=\"width: 832px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.47.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134609 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.47.41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"832\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.47.41.png 432w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.47.41-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicky Rubadiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Funny enough, Kenya was home but everything about her just felt foreign. Okay, at least not Kenyan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">A decade ago I returned to Kenya. After 14 years in the US, I was met with the same dilemma. This time trying to fit in to a culture that was my own but was so foreign. Again my \u2018funny accent,\u2019 ????and \u2018funny name,\u2019 (Rubadiri is Malawian????????) made sure of that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Turn around<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a8<span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">I realised the harder I tried to fit in, the louder my difference would SCREAM\u00a8 she said, opting to take the wiser option &#8211; to just be herself and do things her way.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134605\" style=\"width: 827px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.15.52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134605 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.15.52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"827\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.15.52.png 432w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.15.52-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrated Kenyan journalist, Victoria Rubadiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The way out was in Journalism, which she aptly took and gradually worked her way through the Kenyan culture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">Something helped though and that was becoming a journalist right when I got back home. It turned me into a student of my Kenyan people, language and peculiarities. Every story I told was a lesson.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mother of one eventually came to terms with who she was, accepted her flaws and actually used it all to her advantage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">Each year I grew in my career, I accepted my \u2018outsider\u2019 tag a bit more and used it to my advantage. I gained a unique perspective on the world around me and tried to articulate that through my storytelling.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every sunrise only pushed her to be better, to be more diffused with the Kenyan people, yearning to tell a story as it is.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134608\" style=\"width: 827px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.48.44.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134608 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.48.44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"827\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.48.44.png 431w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.48.44-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TV girl, Victoria Rubadiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And for every sweat she put in, she has no regrets because through her career in media, she was able to tell her story.<\/p>\n<p>Now proudly a well-blended, idolized personality who is part and parcel of the Kenyan heritage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">Not having the comfort of \u2018belonging\u2019 kept me hungry to learn more and strive to tell a story as it is. It is a privilege to do what I do and give my audience a view of their world through my lens.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was in accepting she was who she is and didn\u00b4t need to change that to \u00b4fit in\u00b4, that she spread her wings and flew.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">Once I accepted that I\u2019m terrible at fitting in and better off working on myself and my craft that changed everything for me.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134610\" style=\"width: 836px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.54.33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134610 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.54.33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"836\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.54.33.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.54.33-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-13.54.33-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Revered Citizen TV journalist, Victoria Rubadiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wrapping up, she jotted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">So here\u2019s to the outsiders, the misfits, the quirky, awkward, quiet ones. Celebrate your difference, while daring to shape the world around you.<br \/>\n<a class=\" xil3i\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/tuesdaythoughts%F0%9F%92%AD\/\">#TuesdayThoughts????<\/a><a class=\" xil3i\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/thankful\/\">#Thankful<\/a>\u00a0????????<a class=\" xil3i\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/introvertsspeaktoo%F0%9F%98%8F\/\">#IntrovertsSpeakToo????<\/a>\u00a0????<a class=\" xil3i\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/acceptandmoveon%F0%9F%92%83%F0%9F%8F%BE\/\">#AcceptandMoveOn????????<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well sought-after Kenyan journalist, Victoria Rubadiri had a hard time trying to fit in the USA, coming from an African country and after 14 years abroad, fitting into the Kenyan community proved a challenge as well. 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