When Indian love cooks in an African pot

Timothy Khamala and Zarika Patel arrive at their Nang'endo village, Webuye East after doing their shopping at Webuye Market. On the follow up, the parents to the man want the parents to the Asian lady to calm down for a relationship talk with them. However they indicated their desire for dowry to come from the Asian family side as the Asian culture puts. BY CHRISPEN SECHERE

Timothy Khamala 25 and and Sarika Patel 24, two lovebirds in a remote village in western Kenya are not the first lovers of African and Asian ancestry to get intimately and romantically involved. In 2007, Clement Olunga and Hapreet Syan hit the headlines when they defied stigma and openly declared their love for each other.

The racial and cultural divide between Kenyan Asians and Africans is so blunt that those who dare sharpen it with love brewed in an African pot via marriage face hostility and isolation.