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Move over slay queens, wababas are attending to official wives

"Your Mubaba is gonna start annoying you. Don't fight back my sister. December is a trap", read a recent update from a Facebook user. We've definitely come across, read or heard of those babes who entirely depend on wababa for survival in towns. Scratch, in Nairobi. I don't know about other towns, but Nairobi is where it all starts and ends. The Alpha and Omega of Wababa Culture.


With the current per person sharing, especially in our major towns and cities, its not news for young women to have an older man, two or even three, mainly for financial assistance. Goat wives have slowly accepted the fact that the loves of their lives also have other loves out there, and 'as long as he's providing for the main family', it's no big deal.

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