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Why Nairobi men fear marrying women from Kabete

Since time immemorial, men from Central Kenya have been warned by their folks against marrying women from Kabete. The warnings, some from aunties, are given as early as when the boys are hardly taller than their mothers' knee height. Women from Kabete, who are famously known as 'Aka a Kabete' and famed as 22-carat beauties, are believed to be, among other things, husband killers.

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