'Kababa' is all grown and society must help him cope with life

Kenya has featured in the international news recently for some rather peculiar reasons. CNN went to town with the story of the ‘missing president’, the Middle East press talked about our fake gold exportation prowess while we here locally chose to use KOT to make memes about the Huduma Namba. But what caught my attention is a BBC documentary on the increase in suicides among Kenyan men.

Many of us have know things have not been good for Kenyan men but watching this documentary through the eyes of a foreigner was something of a rude awakening. It is sad to see and hear about the increased incidences of Kenyan men killing others and killing themselves. The question is why. The simple answer is this is the worst time to be a man in Kenya - our country is no longer a good place for men.