From Diamond Platnumz to Atwoli: Polygamy the natural state of African marriage

Diamond Platnumz and Atwoli are afew exampled that best exemplify what we are going to be taking a look at today which is the state of African marriages.

Why Kenyans celebrated Atwoli’s mzungu chefs serving his wife

When you look across Africa, and for the sake our argument, we shall take a look at things from the perspective of entertainers and celebrities.

atwoli with his wife mary kilobi

You see, for men like Diamond Platnumz, men at the peak of their careers at a young age, men who are the best at what they do, men who have managed to turn their position into financial success, expecting them to be monogamists is lying to yourself as a woman.

¨I am hoping am just hoping nitasemehewa¨ Francis Atwoli´s outcry regarding his polygamous marriage

Then there are men like Atwoli. Men who after toiling and making their bones decide to indulge in some of the niceties life has to offer. I mean, sure, they began their journey through life with one wife but then they realized they don’t have to settle for just one.

atwoli and mary kilobi

At the end of the day, the fact that is constant among all such individuals is that they are men.

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Diamond and Atwoli are examples of what men go for once they have settled their existential question. By that, I am referring to men who have surmounted the question of how to survive and are now thriving and beyond. Such men then have a lot more time to focus on whatever their poison of choice is and for most men, that would be women.

diamond platnumz henched

I mean, sure, any woman targeting settling down with Diamond Platnumz can focus on getting his children and being his wife but if you aren’t honest with yourself about how that would look like, then you will end up like Zari or Tanasha or Hamisa Mobetto.

Meet the two ladies Diamond Platnumz sister will be sharing a husband with! (Photos)

Atwoli, on the other hand, has less of an excuse to have a polygamous setup but we do not know whether his first wife was aware of his polygamous proclivities. However, the fact that he hasn’t been divorced yet gives us an idea.

diamond platnumz

And the reason to take a look at the two men is to look at men from two different age groups and two different generations and culture differences. Diamond Platnumz and men like him will indeed settle down but they are at a place in life where they do not have to settle down with one as they are met with an abundance of options. he is not that boyfriend of yours whom you can threaten with dumping him if he doesn’t do what you want him to.

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Atwoli isn’t that dzaddy of yours that you know is going to crumble if you tell him you will not be nice to him if he doesn’t buy you that weave you want.

diamond platnumz

Also, at the end of the day, when you see how many marriages are being rocked or blown apart entirely by infidelity on the part of the man you begin to realize it is because we are taking foreign notions of love wholesale and not translating them to the African setting.

Diamond and Atwoli are two different men who show that a man’s natural state, once he is doing well, is to pursue polygamous relationships. And don’t listen to what your boyfriend is telling you after you showed him this article, he will lie to you because he knows you’re the only source of sex for him.

 

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Why Kenyans celebrated Atwoli’s mzungu chefs serving his wife

Atwoli has so much money he can employ a white chef. And this is such a novel thing that when his wife shares a video of herself being served by the white help, Kenyans go crazy.

Journalist Mary Kilobi graduates and hubby, Atwoli stops at nothing in cuddling her with love [photos]

But why is it that Kenyans were so enthralled by this fact? that is something that has intrigued those with enough brain cells not to be intrigued by the employees.

Atwoli and his wife

You see, in many Kenyans eyes, Atwoli has managed to subvert expectations in a way many thought impossible. And to understand why, we have to first take a look at Kenya’s colonial era. And according to Wikipedia:

Journalist Mary Kilobi graduates and hubby, Atwoli stops at nothing in cuddling her with love [photos]

The British Empire established the East Africa Protectorate in 1895, from 1920 known as the Kenya Colony.

 

atwoli

In 1895 the British government took over and claimed the interior as far west as Lake Naivasha; it set up the East Africa Protectorate. The border was extended to Uganda in 1902, and in 1920 the enlarged protectorate, except for the original coastal strip, which remained a protectorate, became a crown colony. With the beginning of colonial rule in 1895, the Rift Valley and the surrounding Highlands became reserved for whites. In the 1920s Indians objected to the reservation of the Highlands for Europeans, especially British war veterans. The whites engaged in large-scale coffee farming dependent on mostly Kikuyu labour. Bitterness grew between the Indians and the Europeans.

¨I am hoping am just hoping nitasemehewa¨ Francis Atwoli´s outcry regarding his polygamous marriage

This area’s fertile land has always made it the site of migration and conflict. There were no significant mineral resources—none of the gold or diamonds that attracted so many to South Africa.

atwoli and bae

But by and large, when colonial Kenya was set up, it was upon a racial hierarchy that saw Caucasians at the top of the totem pole. That would mean that people older than or about as old as Atwoli would remember this.

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However, why would people younger than Atwoli: dotcom generation individuals see the videos on IG and go crazy? It is because they too have bought into the idea that the mzungu is above them. And this is something indoctrinated through movies, songs and other forms of entertainment.

francis atwoli

So in seeing Atwoli’s wife get served by a mzungu, most people’s simple minds were blown. And in a way, this is a form of inferiority complex, a complex facet of Kenyan society that bedevils every cadre of society. That is why West African and Tanzanian music is seen as superior to Kenyan music. Hell, any foreign culture is seen as superior to Kenyan culture.

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