Maina And King’angi In The Morning: Are Kenyan Men Useless?

Today Maina And King’ang’i were discussing Kenyan men and how to deal with them.

According to a lady caller who called in yesterday, Kenyan men are hopeless and they need women as harsh as Kenyan women. If you talk to this (Kenyan) man politely, he will look for another harsh woman out there! They need women who can cut them down to size!

And what a storm this opinion stirred up at Classic FM this morning! Men were tripping over each other to call in to assert their dominance and having a bull dance about what they feel is wrong with Kenyan women.

And at this point I found myself wondering whether these men know they are the reason Kenyan lads of this my generation are complete mumu (fools)! They see their fathers doing silly things like arguing about what a man should be and they get confused. A female caller actually touched on what i’m getting at when she commented that it’s because of the folly of Kenyan men that there are alot of street urchin in Kenya. These children were sired by mugu (foolish) men who then took off. And then their sons grow up thinking that is the mark of a real man! But enough of the sermon! Let’s get back into it.

A female caller called in to say that Kenyan men want models, wives, baby making machines and whatnot but they still don’t appreciate Kenyan women. The woman said that Kenyan men expect a woman to work, discipline your children and be good to your family. She took issue with Kenyan men talking about Ugandan and Tanzanian women who go down on their knees but forget that their men bring real gold home.
The next caller was male and he said that if you want men to tow the line, the women should be good. he sought to justify having clandestine lovers saying that wives don’t make the home hospitable hence the lady that we know as “Plan B” will “nyenyekea”. Mugu (foolish) speech this! This caller angered me by he referring to women as pumpkins and he doesn’t sound like Denzel himself.
At this point an argument errupted in the office as we debated on why it is Kenyan men feel their women owe them the world yet they fail to deliver even thistles! I feel Kenyan men need to style up because you can’t expect the world from your women yet you are no Chris Hemingway or Uncle Chim Tuna!

A female caller called in and said alot of sense. She said that the reason Kenyan men are useless is that they spend so much money on the clande and leave nothing at home so ofcourse the wives won’t make them home a bed of roses.
The next caller was a man who called in to say Maina is not a joker, he is serious about destroying Kenyan women. He said that you provide a home for her, food, everything but she still expects to be harsh? He dared Maina to call the lady who called in to call him back and tell Kenya whether or not she has a woman. He asserted that he is not a child. Infact, he is a real man! A man with a backbone because he had real male role models growing up.

To this Uncle Chim Tuna says: did you write the book on masculinity? No? Then shut up about this real man nonsense. You are the reason silly Kenyan boys think fighting everyone at the rave makes them a man! And for the record, a tiger doesn’t need to announce it’s tigritude! A man beating his chest is a shell of a man over compensating.
A female caller called in to say that for a woman to be rude to her man, he has to have done something wrong. She took issue with the fact that women work then they have to make the home a home. Kenyan men go to the bar, come home where they are strangers to their families and then they demand sex? She said that King’ang’i needs to be serious because how will the woman be expected to make a home when she knows her husband who swore to love and provide for her is keeping a silly girl somewhere whom he spends more on than he does on his own family?