Why weak men can’t handle Luo women

Since Luo men fear ‘jaber’ they brand her hard-headed, lazy, untamable and a party animal who hops from one Ohangla gig to another.

Nyar Onagi is tall and mostly ebony, dignified and with gait; often endowed in all the right places and generously so. Talking of right places, the space between their ears is never wanting. Any weakling, who can’t handle her strong and fearless opinion tends to brand her as arrogant. Since Luo men fear ‘jaber’ they brand her hard-headed, lazy, untamable and a party animal who hops from one Ohangla gig to another. Well, the Kikuyus have their Mugithis and their women attend too, the Kambas have Ken wa Maria concerts, the Swahili have their Taraab; so that argument is neither here nor there.

Let’s not even talk about arrogance and hotheadedness. You see, Luo culture and traditions glorify the boy child. For years, there are parts of a chicken that were meant for the male in the family, they went to school while the girls were given out for marriage and woe unto a woman who could not sire a male child. Is this not the same culture where a brother-in-law dangles his posterior the very night of his brother’s burial in the name of cleansing and inheriting a woman? That is how low we have been treated. Moreover, we are christened “Migogo” who does not have a say in anything and the jab “in dhako adhaka” (you are just a mere woman) thrown on our faces at every chance like poop.