Let’s take, for example, a girl who works in an MPESA shop. Her first choice, obviously, is a famous movie-star, or a character in some Mills & Boon novel. Her second choice is a popular musician. After him comes another musician. Then another musician. Then the local pastor.
But for reasons either geographical or genetic, she is unable to snare those men, most of whom will be snatched by better-looking women. Terrified by the looming shadows of spinsterhood, the girl casts a jaundiced eye around. She spots @Azor Ahai – a brownskin chokoraa with no permanent job or occupation. She drags him to the altar.