Musa Hasahya Kasera, a 70-year-old Ugandan villager, navigates challenges of 12 wives, 102 children, and 578 grandchildren, facing hunger and limited resources.
“I never knew he had other wives when I first married him,” Zabina confided. “If I had, I might not have agreed to marry him. But when I came, he just kept bringing more wives, until he had 12.”
“his children now range from 10 to 50 years old.”
Surely his adult children should be providing for their own families, yes? Why is it on this 70 year old?
“I can only remember the names of my first and last born, but some of the others… I can’t recall their names,” Hasahya admitted while sifting through old notebooks that contain details of his children’s births. His wives help him keep track, but even they struggle to keep up with the sheer number.
I would be seriously surprised if he would remember all of them.
What a scumbag. So now other people need to pay for this losers choices so his kids don’t die of starvation?
All I’m seeing is an inspiration for a fictional mythical characters I must write
Holy hell.
Though Hasahya’s family continues to grow, he has taken steps to prevent further expansion. His wives now use contraceptives to stop more children from being born
Sounds like he didn’t take steps to do shit, he just put the responsibility on his wives to change.
I would have thought his part in contraception would be being 70.
Buddy’s sperm has the midas touch but instead of gold it turns eggs into fertilized eggs
578 grandkids
At this point, this mf is not a villager, he is the fucking village
Ugandas Khan keeping the birth rates mfkin high af
Or perhaps, the village bicycle
They should have ate him a long time ago.
Eat your heart out, nick cannon
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578 grandchildren
how is there no inbreeding in Uganda?
It’s been a long time since I took any classes involving genetics, but there is quite a bit more genetic diversity amongst humans on the African continent - if incest is an issue perhaps this fact offsets that somewhat?
Not really. Although the genetic diversity across the entire continent is higher, limits to mate selection is common. Location, culture, economics, language, etc, all limit the genetic pool that people have to choose a mate from. So in-group inbreeding is relatively common.
Humans have lived in smaller groups with limited mate choice for most of our evolutionary history. A lower level of inbreeding improves fecundity (around 4th cousins). Once the inbreeding coefficient gets to around 2nd cousins, that’s when problems arise. This happens often in small tribes.
Smaller polygamous groups quickly develop issues with inbreeding. The entire group often has an inbreeding coefficient around 1st cousins or even siblings (example - polygamous Mormons).
Now Uganda is a bit different because the polygamous group is large. This limits inbreeding effects.
If everyone’s polygamous, no one is
Really great information, thanks!
I mean I can definitely feel his pain.
While I feel the pain of his wives, with their 8 or 9 (living!) children each.
