Kenya is in a funny place...I like to call it transitioning. It is that place between skirts and trousers, minis and maxis, house wife and working woman, mother and cooperate boss. We are in transition; transition between tradition and modernity.
We are in that weird space where a man wonders whether he can get a woman who can and cook and clean while at the same time work and be a career woman.We are in a time where people wonder whether to accept or tolerate the gays. We are transitioning in thought and action of what this new age century really wants. People are holding on to conservatism but dipping in the risqué pool. People want to try and let loose, y.o.l.o, people want to be daring, they want to experiment. They crave danger and yearn for attention.
But we are stunted by tradition, plagued by the notion that we can be sinners but still be saints. We can have our cake and eat it. You can judge a woman for partying and smoking yet a man can freely do it. We are trying to break away from patriachy but bitch when a man does not hold up his end of being provider. Women are fighting for gender equality in a government which is a cock fest. Trying to pass a marriage bill that will shackle the legs of men, tame them.
I am curious to see where Kenya will end up. Whether we will accept to embrace modernity or be pinned down by the lifestyle of our ancestors.
We are in that weird space where a man wonders whether he can get a woman who can and cook and clean while at the same time work and be a career woman.We are in a time where people wonder whether to accept or tolerate the gays. We are transitioning in thought and action of what this new age century really wants. People are holding on to conservatism but dipping in the risqué pool. People want to try and let loose, y.o.l.o, people want to be daring, they want to experiment. They crave danger and yearn for attention.
But we are stunted by tradition, plagued by the notion that we can be sinners but still be saints. We can have our cake and eat it. You can judge a woman for partying and smoking yet a man can freely do it. We are trying to break away from patriachy but bitch when a man does not hold up his end of being provider. Women are fighting for gender equality in a government which is a cock fest. Trying to pass a marriage bill that will shackle the legs of men, tame them.
I am curious to see where Kenya will end up. Whether we will accept to embrace modernity or be pinned down by the lifestyle of our ancestors.
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