“White expats used to refer to a group of colleagues as the ‘Kenyan mafia’ given the number of Kenyan staff in the office.”

(IRC Staff Experience)

White expats used to refer to a group of colleagues as the “Kenyan mafia” given the number of Kenyan staff in the office. Oddly, nobody ever referred to the large number of white colleagues across the IRC [International Rescue Committee] as the “white Mafia” or “European mafia.”