LOVE PREVAILED Over Tribal Differences

Young, happy and recently married, Oscar and Caroline Wanjiru Odhiambo tell FAITH MATHENGE-MURIGU how parental resistance and difference in tribe nearly killed their love.

“It takes the special grace of the Almighty God to get a wife,” says Oscar Omondi Odhiambo, 30. “I studied the women I came across as a young bachelor and found Caroline worthy in character, with the disposition of a wife, irrespective of the fact that she is Kikuyu and I am Luo. Honestly, good wives are not easy to come by in these times of moral decadence among the youth,” Oscar says those words with an apparent depth of conviction and finality….Subscribe here for more.