Chaos Outside Shops! Women Clash Over an MPESA Message

My name is Fridah, a 26-year-old working with an NGO in Nairobi. Since the Coronavirus outbreak hit the country, I have been unable to go to work and have spent much of my time browsing social media, especially stories about people’s lives, which I find fascinating.

Last weekend, I came across a story that felt like something out of a Hollywood movie, where two women went head-to-head online over a man. It all began when a betrayed wife was publicly humiliated by her husband’s secret lover after mocking her on WhatsApp.

The hurt wife sent a message to the husband’s mistress, asking how she was coping with the Coronavirus pandemic, since she had been relying on the husband to pay bills. Now that the man was home with his family, the wife assumed the mistress must be struggling. But that wasn’t true—they still regularly communicated and received support from the husband.To Read More, Tap Here