The Real Estate Woman:

The Real Estate Woman:

These Kenyan women are in the ‘fundamentals’ categories. The investment.  Real deal no pretense vibe. Sophistication is their one word description. You will waste your time and energy trying to convince her in your third rate borrowed seduction language. She has been tested in hostile mine fields of Sahara desert dating game and in the freezing temperatures of snow caped Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya simultaneously not losing her composure, cool and temperament. Do not forget, very verily I tell you for free she is still an active Nyiragongo mountain in Congo and if need be she can melt you with lava and disseminate you like molten iron at will. She may turn you to her unforgivable wrath statue of salt at will after burning you like Sodom and Gomora without a twitch of her smoldering loving unsmothering wrinkle line.  In her terrain she has detonated enough improvised Explosive love devises (IELD) without any visible scratch. In other words “Ni Mutumia wene”. She knows her terrain and battle ground.

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he has been taken and fortified. The way she handles his man is like she had been in a refresher course while her man was still in high seas. She will deflate you like a slow puncture and discard you like ‘Koroboi’ can light in other words of deeper Gikuyu like ‘Kanyitira kahorokeire rutambi’. She will not entertain nonsense. She might give you time just to get entertained by your oblivious ‘nonsense’ a by the way by-pass information. Her class is sophisticated, Educated and in her realm of her own right. She calculates her moves, does her math, and you will be lucky if you can sustain a five minute constructive conversation with her. Not unless she deliberately allows that.  She multitasks as you think about your wallet, she will be ahead of the game and order for a double on the rocks, just for an incognito friend with no trace as she waits for her man to close the final deal. “Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”{ Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth}. Yes, she will gladly introduce you to her man like meet Jose’, we just met and he has been keeping me company and talking sporadic topical issues.  At the back of her mind she is in essence insinuating without your otherwise ignorant ‘knowledge’ ‘Indeed Jose has been more dramatic and less specific in global warming’.

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uch is the Kenyan global woman every man envisions but you got to kiss so many frogs along the way. She does not only possess brains but also beauty ‘naharingi’. In her own sober right she knows “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” {Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience} A real estate woman is loyal and respectful, knowledgeable and considerate. You provided a house but she provides a home and many more that we know from such saying.

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ny man who is in this real world of such woman has concurred many visible and invisible battles, treacherous successive winter blizzards and shattering Tornados along the way, and still left him standing with a solid smile. “Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him.”  {Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth} But if you are led by the spirit like me you will by now realize your ‘Real Estate Woman’ is indeed the Biblical psalmist woman.

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She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates” Proverbs 31:21-31. King James Version (KJV) Bible.

Such is the Kenyan woman you will meet in Vegas.

By Njoroge Wa Ngige 013115.