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Unmasked: The secret world of Nairobi sugar babies

The sugar daddy once preyed on nubile girls. That was long ago.  Today, Nairobi has seen the emergence of the sugar baby. She is bold, considers herself a ‘tigress’ , knows her ‘worth’ and isn’t afraid to show off her beauty, to all who care. 

She is 20-something and aggressively hunting for a moneyed old geezer. Slowly, the hunter is now the hunted. The sugar baby does not call him sugar daddy. That is so old school, so 1980. The sugar baby calls him more gisty names depending on his age bracket: sponsor, mheshimiwa, fossil, ancestor, mubaba, zaddy.

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