What young Kenyan men say when no one is watching

A young Kenyan man recently sent this anonymous message to a chatbot late at night: “Mbogi wanasema mimi si mwanaume nisipolala na huyo mama… tangu lini mtu ashajiita mwanaume kwa sababu ya kulala na wanawake?” (“My crew tells me I’m not a man if I don’t sleep with her. Since when did sleeping with women make someone a man?”) That single sentence may explain more about the state of masculinity in Kenya today than many formal reports ever could. The message came through Sema na Me, an AI-enabled…