Kikuyu chics are the most awesome breed of Kenyan women today

If there is a class of Kenyans that is totally denigrated, despised, disliked and derided, it has to be the Kikuyu women. Every terrible thing that can be said about them has been said a million times over. We have questioned their appetite for money, culinary skills, body shapes and bedroom abilities. We harbour this inexplicable contempt towards them that is getting out of hand.

This hatred reared its worst head when the late Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore (may God rest his soul), married Wambui Kamiru in a private and very decent wedding in Nairobi. All manner of ethnic slurs and stereotypes were levelled against her, using the bible and our personal prejudices to decide that she is a gold-digger, terrible wife who left her husband and father of her children to marry a richer man. Most Kenyans were unbound in their comments, and they smacked of an extreme version of schadenfreude wishing the couple the worst in their pursuit of love.

Let me acknowledge that I have said some unsavoury things about Kikuyu women. I even wrote a blog about mukimo. The piece was targeting the less than college friends familiar with my political incorrectness, but inadvertently went viral, earning me a TV interview with Larry Madowo, that I still regret. I performed so badly some woman wrote on Twitter, “this Mukimo guy looks kinda retarded”. I will apologise today for any Kikuyu woman who was offended.