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3 Reasons Why You Should Wear a Weave So you have relaxed hair and try to go regularly to the salon to get your hair in rollers. Aside from that it’s basically always tied up in a bun. Your friends keep suggesting you fix a weave but you wonder what the big deal…
8 Tips to Help You Care For Your Relaxed Hair When you use a relaxer for your hair, you achieve a permanently straightened state for your hair, this is what is referred to as “relaxed hair”. Many of us who have chosen to use relaxers on our hair do so because we feel our straightened…
10 Facts to Know About Henna As a Natural Dye 1. Henna (also called Lali) is the dried up leaves and stems of the plant “Lawsona inermis”. 2. Henna becomes a reddish orange dye when mixed with water. 3. Henna is used for traditional body art/painting and also to colour the hair. 4. Henna boosts…
6 Facts to Have In Mind Before Going Natural… Ok so a number of women around you are ditching relaxers and grooming their natural hair…Then you wonder if you should take the plunge but don’t really know what to expect. Natural black hair is far from relaxed hair when it comes to texture and handling…
The Kikuyu Dowry is about 99goats, which is usually estimated at 100goats. The Dowry these days is usually monetized so if you know the cost of a goat, you should have an idea of what it will cost you. A goat costs between ksh5,000 to ksh18,000 so you’re looking at about ksh 500,000 to…
Ruracio in Kenyan Kikuyu culture simply refers to Negotiation and Payment of the Dowry or Bride price. It is the last stage in the Kikuyu Traditional wedding ceremony. Before this there would have been the “Kuhanda Ithigi or “Planting twigs”. This is the first stage where the groom gets to state his intention to ask…
Here is a list of Ruracio items the Groom usually brings: Items for the men in the bride’s family (Athuri) Fattened ram (Goima) He-goat (Thenge) Sheep (Ng’ondu) Kaburi Blankets Goats (counted in tens; Mburi cia mirongo) Heifer (Mori) Njohi ya uuki (beer made from honey) Assorted items for bride’s father (Maaha indo cia Muthuri)…
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So you’re engaged. Congratulations! Now comes the part that makes many couples reach for something stronger than chai: planning the Ruracio. If you’ve been anywhere near social media lately, you’ve probably seen the videos. The groom arrives in a helicopter. The bride’s family receives cows draped in designer fabrics. The decor looks like it was…
