Bachelorhood is a stage in a man’s life where he is not married and enjoys his own company with minimal restrictions as he is only responsible to self.

A well moneyed bachelor enjoys a lot; from having the top brim of social life in topline clubs to eating in exquisite hotels in town.

The underside of any bachelor’s life is washing utensils and of course doing laundry. This is where trusted “Mama Fua’s” comes in.

Some bachelors have long serving- trusted Mama Fua who they even leave the house key to on weekdays as they go to work and come back to neat floors, dusted windows, immaculate clean sufurias and readily ironed clothes only to be donned in the wardrobe.

Mwangi (not his real name); a bachelor who works for a property company in Nakuru City and lives in the town’s posh Milimani estate has almost on a weekly basis been seeking the service of Lilian – a well Known Mama Fua.

Lilian (not her real name) has earned the trust of Mwangi over time to the level that he leaves her the key to his house every time she comes over to do laundry and tidy up the house.

One day Mwangi says he forgot his laptop at home and had to go back and pick it.

To his shock, he found Lilian boiling a full pot of Githeri (A mixture of maize and beans) a meal that takes atleast four hours to cook, on his gas cooker.

That was when it hit him: whenever Lilian showed up to do laundry, she always carried a large handbag which for him passed as a normal habit for women.

Mwangi says he had noticed the cooking gas was depleting earlier than it used to before, but he dismissed it.

“I now understood why Lilian would insist on coming to do laundry often, even when I told her the clothes had not piled up yet. Kumbe she comes to boil Githeri,” he says.

Mwangi warns bachelors who utilize Mama Fua services to be cautious.

Tales of Mama Fua boiling Githeri in bachelor's home

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