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ARE CITY WOMEN BECOMING A 'DORMINANT' SPECIES.


The vehicles young women are driving in this City can make one turn to a bank robber, drug dealer or gun for hire in a bid to match their larger than life lifestyle.

This clique of women can make you as a man think what you have done wrong to the Almighty that your doors have remained closed.

Before my relocation to Mombasa from Nairobi, I had seen ‘women empowerment’ at its best. There is this clique of urban ladies aged between 22-25, single and not searching, college educated, residing in leafy suburbs which have resident associations such as Kilimani, mostly unemployed; those employed take home less than Ksh 50,000 monthly.

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