This paper explores the representation of the male in the oral narratives of the Kikuyu people of Central Kenya. The paper analyses a sample of seven folktales recorded from female artists from Kirinyaga County. The folktales were recorded in the original Kikuyu dialect and translated into English for analysis. The narratives were analysed using a gender studies approach where gender representations is the central category of analysis. In the analysis, man, the male character emerges as a negative persona, represented by the negative binary. The male is embellished in the image of the ogre or a villain archetype in the narrative. The male character is depicted as potential violator of girls and as a glutton who would annihilate the society through his uncontrolled greed. Symbolically, the male can only be controlled by the older woman or the younger male who has been apprenticed by the older woman. The paper concludes that the narratives have an overwhelming feminine focus that foregrounds female power in the traditional contestation of gender power. This focus has developed over the years as women's reaction to patriarchal power and male dominanace. Being the main storytellers in this community women have used the folktale as an instrument of exercising female power.