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BOYS: Don't be cheated, Nairobi is full of girls, not ladies

Biko the Zulu, a blogger from Migori in a past blog post wrote: “Nairobi is full of girls. Not ladies. Because ladies don’t party all night, every weekend. They don’t think smoking shisha and drinking alcohol is cool”.

I have a classmate I’ve known from 2010. We met in high school at a music festival. Like a tendril shooting from a germinating bean seed, she was young, fresh and composed. And as years happened, puberty happened. And the girl I knew just changed. Like we all do in campus.

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