Ballistic fathers-in-law

Kenyans remain very prudish and traditional in their outlook on many aspects of life. Thus, though we are no apartheid state, Kenyan fathers-in-law are something of a mystery to their children-in-law, writes Patrick Kariuki.

Dr Mwizenge Tembo, a Zambian Sociology professor at Bridgewater College, Virginia, accuses Western scholars of bias when they describe the African family. On his web page www.bridgewater.edu/mtembo, he points out that, some of these scholars have written that Bagandan mothers are not as affectionate as American mothers because Bagandan mothers apparently don‘t kiss their babies.