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4 duties you must never delegate to your househelp

Your marital bed is your business and the househelp has no business with it

Last week, I was at a salon getting my hair done when I experienced a disturbing scene. There was this baby girl who was barely two years old and her hair was being blow dried. The poor baby was in so much pain and agony, she was screaming her lungs out.

The salonist was so frustrated she kept giving up but the woman who had accompanied the child urged her on: “Mblodry tu mamake alisema lazima a-blowdry-iwe juu hiyo nywele imeshikana” (Go on and blowdry it because her mother said it must be done).

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