OPEN LETTER TO THE KENYAN MALE YOUTH

Dear Kenyan Male Youth,

I hope this letter finds you well, even though on my side, I have deep worries and sorrows about our future. We have taken to all the negative vices like a fish takes to water. Drugs, gambling, theft you name it all. Where are we heading as the male youths of this country? To self destruction. You thought it was a joke when we were being told we are the future leaders. Well in a few we will be taking up that responsibility, the only problem is that am not sure whether if we are ready to wear that shoe.

The one thing am sure we are ready for is dating a light skin chiq, whom we have already pictured in our minds carrying our kids. You want her pregnant so that she'll sire a brown skin kid who has your blood running in their veins. For pete's sake is this where the society has gotten us to?(I hope Sauti Sol's Melanin jam will help us get it right with the complexion issue which is a menace on its own)

Where did we go wrong, we need to trace that bad step we took because it's turning us to the worst  male generation. Cry for us, yes you should be sobbing right now, cause have you taken your time and wondered what kind of fathers we are going to be? Ohhh....You didn't know that you were going to be a father in a few years from now? Then what about the light skin you want to impregnate so bad, do you think that kid will call you uncle? Well the joke is definitely on you because your wife is also waiting for you to be the head of a family, your family. To give them a positive moral direction, financial stability, security to mention just but a few. But what are we doing? Spending more than half of the day analyzing soccer matches so that we can place a bet on the way too many gambling sites,then later on we'll say how these gambling sites "zinanyonya".

Now you are shedding tears, need a tissue?

When was the last time you had a manly conversation with your dad? You don't have a dad, talk to your uncle, if not get a father figure and do the talking with them. Have a conversation with them when mending the fences, herding the cows, when you are out the two of you. I know it's not that easy to have a conversation with them but start up with a random topic then get on to serious business. We need their advices in the steps we are to take in life and that's why what an old man sees when he's seated a child cannot see on top of a tree.

We have to get this right. The earth does not need your "coolness" to keep on rotating around the sun; but your family in the near future will need your knowledge and wisdom to keep them on the right path. Invest with the little you have, it will pay off. That's the one thing my dad keeps on telling me. Everything has a starting point, it does not take the swinging of a magic wand to be a business mogul, but years of great investment, hard work and ambition. Let's not wait nor work for these short cuts, cause when it comes crumbling it will be hard to pick up ourselves. Let's be responsible for all that we have done and we are going to do. We need no more dead beat fathers, drunkards, thugs, jobless and irresponsible youths. Let's start living responsibly like our fore fathers and fathers for the oncoming male generations to be a success; because when their time to lead comes, what mantle will we bring forth to them? 

Yours Faithfully,
Osman Ngunyi