This is why Luos are making Kenyan men look bad

Have you ever tried to date a woman who was recently dumped by her Luo boyfriend? You would probably dump her 29 minutes into your courtship.

She would have these unrealistic expectations out of life that that you would definitely not afford. It's safer to spare yourself the trouble and just let her go!

I am not sure why Luos do this, but other than Nigerians, yuppies with low self-esteem and sponsors, no category of men know how to spoil women than Luo men.

And for that, the rest of us who approach life more pragmatically have suffered terribly as a result.

On average, young women think that using an Uber is the standard means of arriving on a date, even when she lives in Pipeline. On average, many young women I meet frown at the idea of eating in a downtown restaurant.

They prefer junk food if it is in a 'classy' restaurant. Typically, more and more young women now have a taste for pricey whiskey and no longer compromise.

It is okay to have standards. If you can sustain them. If a woman meets and dates a loaded Luo man in her early 20s, her life will be totally messed up.

She will be used to a well-furnished apartment with all the electronic appliances that can impress and scare her friends and relatives to no end. She will be used to being flown around to holiday destinations to play with sand. 

She will be used to eating and sleeping in high-end hotels, she will lose touch with her rural or ghetto upbringing, and will start to think that life owes her a living.

When she gets dumped (as often happens) or gets tired of the PR that Luo men are so good at playing, she will live the rest of her life hoping for a man who will top what her ‘good’ Luo boyfriend used to do for her.

Luo men are the reason the rest of Kenyan men are regarded as unromantic (read stingy).

Women love ambition. They love aspiring to big things in life. And often, Luo men can be seen as ambitious and their taste for good things in life can often mislead many a young woman into thinking that life is a bed of roses without thorns.

 By doing this, Luo men often make the work of the rest of Kenyan men rather difficult. Stingy men like me have had a rough time dating some of the more beautiful women in Nairobi because we can't sustain their Uber expectations out of life.

As an ordinary Kenyan, I believe that matatus are 24/7 unless you live in Ngumo, in which case you are too old to be dated.

I believe in eating at normal restaurants and I have become a big opponent of junk food. I believe in drinking in places where drinks are affordable, and not some overpriced joints where you reserve a table by buying a tenfold overpriced imported whiskey.

I have met women who are down-to-earth, God bless them. I have eaten and dined with some of the most beautiful women in smoky and dingy joints, drunk bad whiskey that corroded our intestines, and there is nothing as uplifting as meeting a woman who is real.

You want to take her to your mother. But most such women are often older and wiser and have revised their standards and expectations of life accordingly. Younger women are often a handful.

I want to urge Luo men to always think of the future boyfriends of the young women they mislead, giving them unrealistic and unsustainable life at a very young age.

Ask Nairobi men what their pet peeve is about dating and 10 out 11 will tell you it is the fake class that many women affect.

You can accurately predict whom a woman has been dating by the standards she sets for herself. And I know many Kenyan men, besides Luos, who are down-to-earth, responsibly stingy, and know when and how to treat a woman. She must earn it.

Luo men can be loving without necessarily raising the bar too high. It impoverishes them, spoils our women, making them run after West African men who have peculiar sexual desires, if rumours about their activities in Kasarani and Zimmerman are to be believed.

At this rate, we might be forced to whip Luo men for polluting the dating game with unrealistic standards. It is not fair. It is unsportsmanlike!

The rest of us Kenyan men feel the way our Nyanza brothers feel when Raila is 'rigged out!'

Let’s play fair, shall we?