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Why Kenyan men can’t resist hot Digo women

"Even though my wife had little formal education, she had ‘diplomas’ and ‘degrees’ in areas that matter the most"

It is a tired story, that upcountry men end up in the clutches of hot coastal women and forget their village wives.

In fact, so the joke goes, all a coastal woman, particularly of Digo extraction, needs to do is ‘cook for and serve’ the man she is interested in, and the otherwise responsible man and a husband would soon pack a few clothes in a plastic bag and walk into her house, for good.

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