Kenya’s Ancentus Akuku aka. ‘Danger’ Married 130 wives and still going strong. ‘Danger’ is from the Luo tribe in Kenya which practices polygamy.
“I’m called Danger because I defeated so many men,” Akuku says. “I was very handsome and so I could get many wives.” “When I passed, people would point at me and call me Danger.”
He has outlived his first wife and many of his children. At 90, the grand old man justifies his long life to a diet of traditional foodstuffs such as dek, osuga, mitoo, apoth (traditional vegetables) and fermented milk that have kept him going. And of course… his many wives.
By the time he was 22, Akuku was already a polygamist. “Little did I know that I would marry many more women later,” he says. He then became an expert at managing a polygamous family.
He has led a very ’successful and productive’ polygamous family. He sired 110 sons and 305 daughters. Of the children 150 are married and also blessed with their own children. He says 35 of his sons have died. Despite his age, Akuku still knows each of his children by name. And which child belongs to which mother.
Despite his having a large family, many people today see him as a role model and are learning from him how to keep stable marriages. He has so many wives and children they need a new building to be able to worship together. The family has built a church for itself.
http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/11/22/kenyas-ancentus-akuku-danger-married-130-wives-and-still-going-strong/
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