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It seems even in France, men always return to their old wives... in tears

By Peter Kimani

Kenya: Where I come from, we say a man returns to his old wife (presumably the first, in this age of polygamy) in tears. I’m not talking of the poor tea or coffee farmer who flees from home the moment he gets paid for the crop, and then returns after the loot has been exhausted – or most probably stolen.

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