Posted by: afrowrite on: November 18, 2008
Muli wa Kyendo It’s a pity that no one said a thing—unless they whispered—against the illegal harassment of Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, the best known polygamist in the world. Abubakar, 84 years old, has 86 wives. According to interviews we have read, the women have voluntarily married him and are happy. Even the youngest in [...]
Posted by: afrowrite on: August 11, 2008
By Muli wa Kyendo The other day, I listened with interest as American President George Bush, urged the Chinese to improve their human rights record. It was not that America wanted to impose standards on the Chinese, he said. The Chinese could evolve their own type of democracy provided it adhered to the [...]
Posted by: afrowrite on: June 7, 2008
By Muli wa Kyendo David G. Maillu’s book, Our Kind of Polygamy, is the only one in Kenya – as far as I know – that tries to defend what he calls, “African Polygamy”. The difference between the African polygamy and the European polygamy, according to him, is that the African lives with all his [...]
