Why Kenyan men can’t tell their fathers ‘I love you’

Why don’t Kenyan men tell their dads that they love them more often? Photo: Courtesy.

A local radio station carried out an interesting social experiment. They gathered a group of young men in their 20s and early 30s and asked each one to call their fathers and utter the three most dreaded words on Mars, “I love you”. The anxiety expressed was real. Where does one start? How to broach the subject?

“The old man will think I have lost the plot or that I’m thoroughly high on something herbal.”