But wait, can one really find love in Nairobi? Genuine love? Because it's now easier to get sex in the city, making it harder for people who want love, to find it. Well, there are those lucky ones who've found love within and are living happily ever after, but how many, in five? How genuine is this Nairobi love?
Too much sexitivities and sexapades happening around town with no relationships, no strings attached, no commitment. Yaani the hook-up culture has been normalised to the extent that it's no big deal.
People getting laid within minutes of choma and cheap gin made in Kariobangi that they wouldn't even remember the other person's second name the following day!
Friends with benefits now rule the world. We have casualized sex and anyone who speaks of love in this big city will be looked at as someone who really doesn't know Nairobi. Love and Nairobi in the same sentence? Dream on.
'Nairobi...yule anakupea, pia ananipea akikuletea, ananiletea.' remember how Bensoul and Sautisol hit our airwaves with this tune a year ago and we all agreed with every word from the lyrics?
The current dating trend or idea of dating in the capital, is purely sexual. And sex is no big deal. We are living the Big Bang theory. It's all about a dude taking a babe out for booze somewhere in the CBD or outside town like Rongai or Syokimau (if he has a few thousand). Choma, two mizinga of gin, six cans of guarana then later smash each other the whole night like horny bunnies.
Voila! It's a date. It's done and dusted, and the chances of these two ever meeting again are minimal. Whatever happened to people knowing each other before rubber meating the rod?