Emmy and Mabdubuko.
The Nigerians are in town
They are flamboyant, they are rich, and are not afraid to show it to the world. They wear designer suits, gold chains around their necks and wrists, cruise in expensive and luxurious cars. If they are not running 419 schemes trying to swindle people through email scams, or running mega churches, or playing druglords looking for big bucks, they are trading billions (dollars please!) in characteristic style as we saw last weekend when the tycoons, akina Aliko Dangote landed in town to meet Prezzo and cut big business deals.
They are here and they are called Nigerians. In what started as a joke invasion, they have taken over. From the music buzzing in all our airwaves to Nollywood, which has hijacked our TV screens, everywhere we turn we see oga this, oga that.
And while for the longest time, most action was reserved to our TV sets, the so called Nigerian craze is catching on, and this time, it is going past the TV room, into the bedroom. Chineeeeeke!!!! Kenyan women are not only waxing lyrical about our West African brodas, but jumping the broom with them.
Kenyan men brand their flamboyant counterparts too showy for life, but it would seem these notions have fallen on deaf ears. The love train from Naija land to Kenya seems unstoppable, and last week’s wedding of gospel Songstress Emmy Kosgey, is anything to go by, the icing on this cake just got serialised.
Emmy, is not the first local celebrity, nor is she the first Kenyan to fall head over heels for their charms. Our signoritas have not hidden their love and liking of the expensive lifestyle our Nigerian brothers come with.
However, it is not just the Nigerian dudes who have invaded our borders to source for our sisters. It is in fact, the entire West Africa. Songstress Habida, could not just resist the charms of Ghanaian Daniel Ebo and as Kenyan men ogled her.
Hivyo ndivyo aliendaga. So, we Spicers have been wondering what it is that Nigerian men do, that seems to sweep women off their feet? In fact, it seems, top on most ladies’ shopping list is no longer Telemundo’s Alejandro’s, but Nigeria’s princes, or hid fufu eaters aka a guy from West Africa. To get this show on the road, Antony Chinedu.
This is the guy who said “We are doing Kenya a favour by marrying their women. I have never heard of a Kenyan man marrying a Nigerian. Without Nigeria’s patronage, Kenyan Airways would fold up.” While the long not-so-clandestine love affair with Nigerians continues, with guys like Chinedu, it’s Afrosinema continues.
Throw in that soap opera real or imagined drugs, Government spy status, real estate, kids, a lush lifestyle, hijacked Kenyan planes and it’s enough to get you heady. Akinyi would tell you that you kiss very many frogs in the hope of landing a prince from western coast, and it is easy to get a happily-never-after. Joyce Akinyi of Chinedu, can testify to Spicers.
“It does not always end with bliss for ladies seeking the West African Love.” But we have also heard that Nigerians are masters in wining and dining. They are very good at showing you how special you are and their sweet words will get you ‘in the box’ faster than you can say Igwe!
But it comes at a price. Though Nigerian men are said to be promiscuous, they expect absolute fidelity from their women. “I met Nigerian Guy while still in campus at a club. And yes, he was the complete opposite of our Kenyan dudes.
He was a gentleman, the guy any lady would dream of and wish to have in her life.” Joan of USIU told Spice. According to Joan, the Nigerian knight in a white horse would pick her from campus in a flashy car, treat real nice. “I thought theirs was the perfect definition of a true relationship. My friends, who were still embroiled in relationships with Kenyan guys, were in bad relationships.”
The fairlytale, it would seem, did not last too long. Joan went further to recount how things started to change. The broda it seems, started acting weird. He got more possessive, jealous and even started scrolling through her messages to see who she was chatting with.
At first, she thought he was just a normal jealous guy who was marking his territory until one day things got out of hand while they were clubbing. “I was dancing with some male classmates, and my dude was sitting at the corner enjoying his drink, and then all over a sudden he pulled me aside.
He dashed me outside, and started shouting on top of his voice. He kept asking why I was dancing suggestively with the dudes at the club. Before I could answer him, he slapped me.” There is no denying that some of the West African dudes would go an extra mile to empty their bank accounts just to make an impression even when, most surprisingly, it is hard to pin point the specific job they do, but whatever they do, they seem to do it well.
“I still have my Nigerian prince charming, and he has even introduced me to his family, a brother and two sisters but up to now, I still don’t know what he does, though he says he is a businessman and that he has invested in real estate,” tells Vivian, another Kenyan girl under the spell of our oga brothers. And this it seems is credited to the arrival of Oga men.
Ladies are awkwardly letting loose to these breed without even having a third eye perspective about them. They are blinded by all the charm and the high life. Levi Abura, an international student at Australian Studies Institute (AUSI), had this to add: “Oga men regard Kenyan women as a good time.
They are easy to figure out, and I am not trying to be presumptous, just stating the lobvious. You can buy drinks for them all night long, which is very rare with most West African cultures. Most do not allow women to drink outside their homes, unlike here in Kenya, where women have taken over the clubbing scene.”
“I love having a good time and he gives me that and more. I enjoy my bottles fully filled on the counter without spending a single dime. My girlfriends also benefit when we go out. Sex is part of the deal that I have signed up for so i am not worried about that,” adds Vivian.
It is said that Nigerian men are zooming past their Kenyan counterparts to the finish line, and getting the (hot) girls in Kenya. Apparently, they are richer, kinder, sweeter, manlier, more dangerous and better in bed. The jury is still out on that last one though. - By FAITH CHEBET AND MANUEL NTOYAI
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