If you want to marry a submissive woman who will respect you,
Marry a woman from communities we consider "hardship communities"
• Maasai
• Turkana
• Borana
• Somali
• Giriama
• Taita
• Pokot
• Tugen
• Teso
Especially if they grew up in their families.
They have lived in situations that call for patience and humility.
No matter how tough your marriage becomes, they will endure everything.
They will remain respectful and submissive.
They are good women.
I didn't say you marry them from the city. The Gilbey Dragons will stress you for nothing.
Get them from their villages.
Remember, you are marrying a mother of your children, a woman whom you will live with for the rest of your life.
Don't gamble.
Listen,
Before you commit to marrying a woman,
Scrutinize her family.
Know her culture, beliefs and traditions.
Don't marry a woman whose family's beliefs and traditions conflict with yours.
Marry a woman whose cultural beliefs are in agreement with your beliefs.
She and her family must agree to let her become subservient to your family and even religion.
If she is SDA, and you are Catholic, she must abandon SDA and become a Catholic.
She has no excuse for insisting on being SDA. If she is not ready, end the commitment immediately.
Know her parents.
You might be marrying a woman whose father is a night-runner and whose mother is a witch.
Her parents must first respect your parents.
You are doing them a favour by marrying their daughter. Otherwise, she would be a burden to them, fighting her mother, competing with her brothers, and leaving behind a chain of fatherless babies.
If her parents despise your parents because they think your parents are poor, or because they are of a community they loathe, then don't commit.
You must get this right.
Don't just meet a woman in the streets or in college, start an affair, and then impregnate her, and then marry.
This is starting on the wrong footing.
Understand her origin.
• Where does she come from?
• Who is her father?
• What is her family history
• Where are her elder sisters? Are they married?
Otherwise, you will discover serious wounds that were hidden from you, and it will be too late to undo the damage.
Don't marry these rudderless, uncouth, alcoholic women of the city.
They will become an unnecessary burden in your life.
In the end, you and the children will suffer.
But most of you think that because you went to Harvard, have a PhD, and drive a Porsche, you are so clever.
Families that disavow their cultural source will eventually collapse.
Men,
It is a wrap,
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Lesson of the day,
Take care of your pregnant wife.
Keep her private from the eyes and mouths of the public.
Your wife's pregnancy is sacrosanct.
Protect it.
Babies are a gift.
Nurture them.
#MasculinitySaturday
When you are broke, nobody calls you
But the moment some coins land in your pocket, you begin receiving funny-funny calls from random girls.
Don't accept.
Switch off your phone and sleep.
The devil is a liar.
Refuse!
I want to say this,
Before you marry a woman,
• Understand her family's taboos, traditions, values, morals and beliefs. This is important.
• Take her to your home, and leave her there for a while to bond with your traditions, values, morals and beliefs.
• Go to her home and introduce yourself. This is not you going. It is your uncle, siblings and aunts. You remain behind.
• Invite her brothers, uncles, aunts and otheŕ relatives to your home. This is when they see you for the first time. This is when you interact with them for the first time.
• After this, plan and go to her home. This is the first time you go there. Go with your friends, siblings and parents. This is where bride price talks are introduced. This is when you meet her father and mother for the first time.
Why do all these?
To protect yourself and your children's future.
But most of you are ignorant. You live in the city like vagabonds.
You meet a woman in the city and hide her in your city's house.
Impregnate her in the city.
Have children in the city.
Then, when things fail and her family take her away, you throw tantrums, loiter around court corridors and jeopardise your children's future.
Some of you shamelessly meet your father-in-law for the first time in a funeral.
Or some of you, casually meet your father-in-law in a bar.
Your children don't even know their village.
When will you be straightforward and subservient to our cultural norms as an African?
Stop being a bladifakin man.
Politicians steal your resources. The church steals your brain.
The church is worse.
Politicians in bed with the church is disastrous.
They steal your resources, and they all blame you for not tithing enough.
Then you accept it as the truth.
It is easy to blame your:
• Childhood
• Parents
• Tribe
• Government
It is much harder to accept responsibility for your own decisions.
The day a man stops looking for someone else to blame is the day he begins taking control of his life.
#ManDay
Even if you remain alone, the VISION is yours.
Even if nobody believes in you, the vision is yours.
Believe in it.
Believe in yourself.
One day,
those who doubted you,
those who ignored you,
those who abandoned you,
Will beg to be part of your success.