Single mothers became common before single. Childless and economically stable women who claim independence became a common feature. Most of the women without children, bar fertility issues, chose not to raise their children out of wedlock. When the serious man decided to take a tangent behind her home, she conditioned herself to let motherhood go. This was well understood and Kenyan society somehow made peace with it. There is a new monkey in town, but let us first get the bonobo out. This article is about single, straight men. On my trip upcountry recently, I found my mother discussing a recently departed villager. Apparently those…
Author: Kenyatta Otieno
Two city lawyers recently made social media headlines because of their love lives. One for dressing his new catch in clothes similar to what his former bae loved to wear. The other for taking photographs of a lunch date with his former wife who he had announced on social media that they had divorced. The two lawyers are well aware that lawyers ask for the payment upfront when opening a file for divorce proceedings. Couples have brought wonders from the corridors of romance to the corridors of justice. The law is very clear that in matters of the heart, all is fair hence…
The East Africa Community currently has seven member states and one application to join from Somalia. Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are the original members from its inception in 1967. It collapsed in 1977 but was later revived in 1990s. Since then, Rwanda, Burundi and The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have joined from central Africa and South Sudan joined after breaking away from Sudan. The entity ran the East Africa Railway and Habours as well as the East Africa Airways, among other entities. The ideological collision between Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta led to its collapse in 1978. Around that time, Uganda was…
Cost is relative; that is why of late I avoid using expensive or cheap when describing the cost of something. I have trained myself to use costly and affordable because what is expensive to me may not be expensive to you. Raila Odinga recently pointed out that the cost of Luo funerals has become exorbitantly high; I couldn’t agree more. I was, however, conflicted. I have struggled with the cost of funerals since I was a young man. As I grow older, I have come to terms with the fact that culture is stubborn. I am surprised that Raila, at…