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By Silas Nyanchwani

How city dwellers steal the show during village funerals

The amount of posturing, chest-thumping and ‘swagger’ displayed by city dwellers during funerals annoys the rural folk more than it amuses them.
By By Silas Nyanchwani 11 years ago
How city dwellers steal the show during village funerals
Post on Uhuru's Social media pages raise question on his historical knowledge, intellect
Post on Uhuru's Social media pages raise question on his historical knowledge, intellect
By By Silas Nyanchwani 11 years ago
Where city’s rich go for holidays
Where city’s rich go for holidays
By By SILAS NYANCHWANI 12 years ago
Identifying city conmen
Identifying city conmen
By By Silas Nyanchwani 12 years ago
Tough call for geographically unsuitable couples
I have worked in a desolate village in Sudan. I empathised with the choices married people settled for. There were phone calls from the incessantly complaining wives who scarcely saw the need of money substituting the comforting arms of human company
By By SILAS NYANCHWANI 12 years ago
Tough call for geographically unsuitable couples
God, as Kenya we need a sign now
At Westgate, before we knew who was behind, I heard friend joke that the place should be robbed because it belongs to the rich who might not feel the squeeze
By By SILAS NYANCHWANI 12 years ago
God, as Kenya we need a sign now
Barmaids having a hard time finding husbands
Few men would want to marry a barmaid. They claim they are normal women just like the rest, but men always approach them with a ‘touch and go’ mentality. Tired of mistreatment and discrimination, barmaids have spoken their minds, writes SILAS NYANCHWANI and TONY MALESI.
By By SILAS NYANCHWANI and TONY MALESI 12 years ago
Barmaids having a hard time finding husbands
Thou shall never lose your cool to a woman
The womenfolk must find creative ways of dealing with their men. If you want to use the ‘in-your-face’ approach, a man has only two alternatives; either he will slap you or walk away. Men need only three things: food, sex and silence.
By By SILAS NYANCHWANI 12 years ago
Thou shall never lose your cool to a woman
Let’s accord cohabitation official status
While cohabiting makes people complacent and lazy, often cohabitation is the only option that individuals have. And it is healthy. It encourages monogamy, sometimes faithfulness. And if individuals click well, marriage is the end result
By By SILAS NYANCHWANI 12 years ago
Let’s accord cohabitation official status
Kicking out self imposed wives
Most women panic once their biological clock begins ticking thus use hook and crook to get married. When they are not tricking their men with pregnancies — to marry them, they are coning their way into come-we-stay arrangements, and before men discover it, it’s too little too late to disentangle themselves out of the unplanned marriages. However, some men have resorted to dodgy and crafty ways of smoking out such women, writes SILAS NYANCHWANI.
By By SILAS NYANCHWANI 12 years ago
Kicking out self imposed wives
Have Nairobi women killed the fine art of dancing?
Every once in a while I have had women grab me from where I am seated and subject me to humiliating ‘socket-dancing’ or an uncalled for lap-dance. Most men have admitted such moments leave them baffled.
By By SILAS NYANCHWANI 12 years ago
Have Nairobi women killed the fine art of dancing?
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