Politics of love: Why men fear women with big cars

Roles changing? [Photo: Courtesy]

Driving on Lang’ata Road in the morning on a weekday can be an interesting anthropological study on the social evolution of the Nairobi woman. Men in expensive cars no longer chauffeur women, the women drive them.

If we can use the cars they drive as a barometer for climbing up the social ladder, we might deduce that they are almost there. There are as many women in expensive German-made cars as there are men today. These women are mostly young, in their late 20s or early 30s. For some reason, they are always in a foul mood. It could be the traffic, or that mindless matatu driver.