Posted on 06/25/2014 8:30:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last month a controversial bill legalising polygamy became law in Kenya. Yalda Hakim reports for BBC Our World on how it is being received.
In the chilly dawn deep in Kenya's Rift Valley, three women make domestic preparations for the day. One cooks breakfast, another makes pancakes, the third fetches milk for tea.
But Alice, 62, Mary, 56, and Joyce, 54, are doing this for the same man, the husband to whom all three are married.
He is Isaya Ntokot, a 76-year-old with 15 children and 48 grandchildren.
There is nothing unusual about this - in fact, three wives for a wealthy man like Mr Ntokot is considered not at all excessive, and unless you are Muslim, Kenyan men can marry as many women as they like.
The Maasai accept polygamy as a way of life and these women grew up with fathers who had married several wives.
They all expected that one day they too would become part of a group of women who would share one man.
The three wives claim to live harmoniously, though Alice, as the first wife, feels she has more authority than the others....
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Those three?...oh hell no!
My stuff is where I put it. I want it to stay that way.
/johnny
They have harmony because there is no toilet seat to leave up
Been there done that, 3 times married = 3 wives, no? I held on to the last one. # wives are OK if you live like they do, but here?? You won’t have enough money to keep them. And 3 mother in laws?? Ya gotta be nuts to even consider it.
If I was the one on the right, I’d be very careful to guard my top left incisor.
The hot (with full compliment of teeth) one always has to be on guard for that!
I bet they have great personalities...
Alice is a hottie. The gap in her teeth means she’s saucy.
Ping.
Before i got married my dad related this little nugget of wisdom to me: “son, do you know what the punishment is for having a wife and a mistress?” No, i said what is the punishment for having a wife and a mistress? He looked me square in the eye and said -”two women”.
CC
Notice how they’re all bundled up? They know about us American kids eye-balling them in our grandfather’s National Geographics.
Now that polygamy is legal for Kenyans and perversion is allowed by increasing numbers of American jurisdictions to pose as “marriage,” does that mean that Moochelle has to be jealous now of Reggie Love, gay porn star, presidential pal and golf partner?
Oh hell yes!
“American kids eyeballing them in their grandfathers National Geographic”
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