This is a love story filled with
deception, greed and misguided intentions.
It is a story of Esther Njeri
Wanjiru, a sharp African woman from Kenya who just arrived in the United States
on a fiancée visa after graduating from law school. She has big dreams.
She wants to practice law, build a family, accumulate wealth and take care of
the family she left behind in Kenya.
After spending few months in
America, she becomes impatient with how slowly her big dream is
unfolding. She wants her dreams manifested now. After all, this is
what her fiancée promised her.
As much Esther looked forward to
a new life as a "New woman in America," Laban, her fiancée,
viewed her as “a Traditional Kenyan woman”…the kind he longed for
since he arrived in America ten years back.
Laban sees that this relationship
is becoming toxic and could spell disaster to both their dreams.
In time, Esther and Laban discover
that getting along now is the only way to assure their future in America.
Esther’s patience will be tested in a major way as she will find out much later
that “it’s not easy to spot a lizard in a parade of crocodiles” Or as we say in
Swahili, ”Katika msafara wa mamba, kenge wamo” and so the story goes...
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