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Of women who can't keep a househelp for long

  • House girls have played (and continue to play) a very important role in the lives of most Kenyans. Each and every family has enlisted the services of these ‘domestic managers’ at one point or another.

It is interesting to note that these girls tend to be very close to women’s hearts. They, for instance, can afford to fall out of favour with the man of the house, but not the woman. Differently put, how long a house girl stays solely depends on how she gels with the woman of the house.

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