How women milk chamas for illicit love

When your wife comes home late in the night happy, relaxed and tipsy from a chama (women’s investment club) meeting, she just might have spent a few blissful hours in another man’s arms, writes LINDA KEYA

Initially, chamas were the preserve of rural women who gathered in each other’s houses once a month to socialize over tea and snacks and buy spoons, cups and pans for each other. With time, however, the meetings — which were frowned upon by husbands who reluctantly funded them — rose in stature. Women began buying livestock, building water tanks, buying pieces of land, paying school fees, investing shares on the stock market and even building houses,   courtesy of the merry go rounds.