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Ten Things Nairobi Women discuss in Chamas.

Chamas.  This is a foreign word that all Kenyan men are trying to decipher.  Long ago, it used to be an ensemble of women who had common financial goals and thus had to pull their resources together to achieve it.  Chamas have now become the perfect excuse for wives to come back home at midnight, with a foul smell of the brown bottle and cursing like the devil's agents.  What do these women really discuss?

1. Kaplot deal: Nairobi women are literally buying ‘Kenya’.  Some chamas invest in buying parcels of land across Kenya in areas like Kitengela, Kamulu, Syokimau and recently Isiolo.  Strength of a woman.

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