My Samburu Moran

Ok, let’s come clean on this matter of my samburu moran once and for all. While we want to ferry the old saying that love is blind around, a scenario in which an old white lady who can afford a holiday in the Kenyan coast meets and marries a young Samburu Moran who has travelled the long distance to the coat to look for a better life can by no means be described as a love thing gone to marriage. What surprises me is that all these women seem to have one thing in common; they cannot have children. While we may want to imagine that it is because the white women are already past the child bearing age, let’s not forget that some of them came here in their early 30s.

And why is it that they appear to tolerate not the idea of the Samburu Morans marrying a second wife? I mean, polygamy among the Kenyan communities especially Maasai and Samburu is something more like a norm. I thought if you love someone you accept them the way they are?

I am very glad about the one moran who is so sincere about the entire issue; he says he married a white lady 30 years older than him because he thought the woman would give him a good life. But this leads me to ask this one question; do these young energetic Kenyan men consider the gravity of the matter of marriage? Do they for one second pause to think about the agony that they cause their parents? Or is it that the mothers and fathers of the Samburu Morans also want their sons to get rich no matter what they do to achieve that?

Tell me Kenyans, these guys featured in My Samburu Moran on Citizen TV, are they any different from the coastal girls that were on the news headlines a few days ago with the dog saga? Kwani Kenya kuna shida gani?