The Wannabe spicy ‘Girl Power’

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Twenty years ago, the first modern ‘Girl Power’ music group called the Spice Girls burst into the scene with a song called ‘Wannabe.’ The Spice Girls were Sporty (a male fantasy of athleticism), Baby Spice ( like the freshers in Campus), my favorite Ginger Spice, Scary Spice (she just had to be the black girl, Melanin B) and the real scary spice, Posh, whom we now know as the materialistic Victoria Beckham.

We even had our own real life Spice Gal­ish group in college in the late 90s – led by an amazon called Faith, a very funky young lady Annabelle Mugo, Julianne Mwaura (whom I had a crush the size of the Big Bang on), crazy Connie and this titanium beau called Tabs.