Huddah Monroe regrets being born in Kenya
By Ascah Mwango, July 7, 2025Kenyan socialite and beauty entrepreneur Huddah Monroe has expressed deep frustration with her country, saying she regrets being born in Kenya and no longer wishes to identify as Kenyan.
In a series of emotionally charged posts shared via Instagram Stories on Sunday, July 6, 2025, Huddah opened up about the internal struggles she faces tied to her identity, race, and nationality.
She described being Kenyan as a burden, explaining that in addition to what she sees as the systemic global disadvantages of being Black, such as racial profiling and the need to work significantly harder to succeed, she also finds herself embarrassed to share a national identity with what she referred to as uncouth human beings.
“The only thing I will ever regret is being born in Kenya, as a Kenyan. I hate it. Being Black is already a disservice to me as a person! We always have to work 1000 times harder, forever profiled. Then I have to share the same identity of being KENYAN as some uncouth human beings?” Huddah questioned.
Huddah further revealed that she has now renounced the Kenyan label altogether and instead chooses to identify broadly as African. She expressed intense disdain for her Kenyan passport, lamenting that if she still held a second country’s travel document, she would have destroyed the Kenyan one immediately.
“I identify as an African moving forward since I can’t change this skin tone even if I bleached. If they didn’t recall my other country passport, I’d have burnt my Kenyan passport tonight!”
Economic struggles
Her comments come at a time when tensions in Kenya are running high, with ongoing youth-led protests against police brutality and poor economic conditions.
Huddah has been vocal about the country’s economic struggles, especially for the youth. In a separate series of Instagram stories shared on Thursday, June 26, 2025, she spoke out about the country’s worsening economic conditions, expressing deep frustration at the hardships facing young people.
“We have like 3 generations fighting for a living in Kenya. Our parents (most are not old), millennials and now Gen Z. Some of our parents are just reaching menopause! That’s still a working age. That means Gen Zs have nothing, not even crumbs.”
She blamed the lack of jobs and industries, and criticised the government for making it hard for entrepreneurs to succeed.
“There’s no job creation. We have no factories. No industries! Few of us who are trying to build a business to create employment are harassed daily. That means more companies closing down & relocating out of Kenya,” she stated.