Luo lover

by Luo lover
(Canada)

I'm a white Canadian who started a relationship with a beautiful young Luo woman on the internet. So in April 2008 I had 2 weeks off between jobs and it was my only chance to go see her in Kenya to decide if we would marry and afterwards to sponsor her for permanent residence in Canada.

Well if you remember April 2008 it was certainly not the best time to be in Kenya!!! There was election related violence and as if that was not enough, the dreaded Mungiki's went on a rampage! So I only stayed one night in her apartment and then we split to a high security hotel with high concrete walls, razor wire and armed guads.

It cost me a bundle but well worth it because I married my sweetheart and she now lives with me in Canada. Of course the security situation being what it was we could not visit all the places we wanted but one day we will return and do that. It's too bad Kibaki is so obsessed with power and had to cheat in the election... which sparked the violence.

As a white 48 year old with a beautiful young 31 year old Kenyan woman I certainly got attention on the street. I have to say though I have never seen so many beautiful women as I did in Kenya.

I hope that one day the political/economic elite in Kenya will stop the corruption and lining their pockets at the expense of the poor in places like Kibera. My wife's salary here in her profession is 10 times higher than it was in Kenya so money is definately being sucked out of the Kenyan economy in secretive corrupt ways.

God bless Kenya!