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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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