By yesterday afternoon, 2.22pm, the top trending re-tweet in Kenya was that of the social media bigwig @amerix, who had tweeted thus about the departed tycoon-farmer-and-politician Jackson Kibor of Uasin Gishu. - @NationAfrica 
There is a reason @amerix, who has become (in)famous on social media for his perceived ‘anti-feminism,’ had capped the word ‘MAN’ throughout his tweet.
Jackson Kibor, 88, had become the unlikely male role model for many Kenyan men — from those half-to-quarter his age — so much so that he was a common social media meme, dispensing advice through implanted quotes (most on “how to deal with women”).
Kibor was also the honorary chair, patron and guest speaker of the metaphorical “Men’s Conference”, a mythical two-day mass meeting supposedly held to just overlap Valentine’s Day, in which men would speak on masculinity and how not to be over-run by womenfolk.
An unapologetic polygamist who once pulled a gun on one of his sons during a land squabble (the old man later said “the boy had threatened me with a panga, attacked me, and I’d have shot him [at close range]”)....
....Kibor then married a woman less than half his age, his fourth wife Yunita, with whom he got four children.
It was for this bravura performances—shrugging off a troublesome wife, getting a more obedient one, and refusing to be either a cuckold, or getting his stuff sold even when old, that Kibor became a hero for, role model to, and an old gold god for many Kenyan men.
In a way, Kibor had become the vicarious old model for “true” masculinity.
.@nyanchwani the popular writer of the new book “50 Memos to Men”, says Kibor became a “folk hero” because he not only said a big NO to his noisy and noxious wives, but also “served his spoiled kids with a hard dish of reality”.
#MensConference Chairman Mzee Jackson Kibor the unlikely hero for Kenyan men ft. @amerix and @nyanchwani bit.ly/3ig8K3x via @NationAfrica
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