The era of slay-queens, mafisi and sponsors

By Jackson Nzuli

Mafisi, slay-queens and sponsors are slugs whose roots grow deep in Kenyan culture. They are not only phrases, but also an indication of what is actually happening behind the Kenyan morality. Great danger is being posed to the young, unmarried and the marrying young men. As said, love is a series of likes, loving someone who loves another person, that other also loves another person… Many men who think they are in love have just fallen into the experience of love, to be taught perfectly. 

At first, as usual, a person will give a “glow” of the beautiful qualities attributed to him/her which do not even exist within him/her but later he/she becomes “mpenzi mtazamaji”. As girls and boys engage in relationship, the girl gets a hero and the man a goddess. When they marry, she marries a hero and lives with a husband; he marries a goddess but lives with a wife. At this point, the truth unveils and experience starts counting down. 

Love life depends on its base, if it is based on emotions, it will die when the emotions die, if it is based on money, when the money will not be there, the love will also not be there. Young men commit suicide when they see their “queens” and their “goddess” taken away from them by mafisi and sponsors. Mafisi love is but passions, based on emotions, and dies when the emotions die. Sponsor’s love is but love based on money, and dies when the well dries up.

At young ages, one loves with the heart only, because the mind Is usually committed to other activities such as education. The fact remains that the minds of the young people are so committed to think about some matters outside education and money. For the sponsors, their hearts work more than their minds; the so called retired minds. They don’t have to use their mind on other matters like education and money since they already have all these. They seem to be caring therefore, because they love with their hearts and brains and that’s why young stars are falling into their traps.

Society whose common practices are mafisi, slay- queens and sponsor practices is morally rotten, a society which does not fear God but limited only by death. There is usually a divine urge in all humans; an urge that pushes hungry people towards meals, an urge that pushes all people towards knowledge and learning and above all, the urge that pulls people towards morality.

Our society is falling because of sex and money. 
 Sex is a function and therefore can be replaced, but it is destroying the irreplaceable; family and wife/husband. Kenyan youths are in a fix of destroying the irreplaceable in favour of the replaceable.