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Why Kenyan women are hiring parents

 

  • Kenyan women are posting job proposals for hiring fake parents and relatives
  • Their reasons for hiring parents range from fear of their spouses being rejected by their family and dating much older men

A Kenyan woman recently posted a job proposal on a popular Facebook group’s page. Her demands were modest. She wanted parents for hire. See, her old geezer of a ‘sponsor’ took her so seriously, he wanted to pay bride price. But she would rather have been caught dead in a sewer than have the ceremony.

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