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'Danger' Akuku Dies and Leaves Behind 100 Widows (Kenya)
ABC News ^ | Oct. 4, 2010 | DANA HUGHES

Posted on 10/05/2010 1:25:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Ancentus Akuku Was Nicknamed 'Danger' Because He Was Irresistable to Women

Kenya's most prominent polygamist has died having married more than 100 women in his lifetime and fathered nearly 200 children. Nicknamed "Danger" because women were so attracted by his handsome looks, Ancentus Akuku was in his late 90's when he passed away of natural causes.

Akuku Danger was legendary in Kenya. He married his first wife in 1939 and became polygamist some 70 years ago at the age of 22. He's outlived 12 of his wives, marrying the last one in 1992. There were so many children in his family that Akuku established two elementary schools solely to educate his children, as well as a church for his growing family to attend.

In past interviews Akuku told local journalists he was responsible for naming all of his children, as way to bond with them.

His death was the number one topic of Kenyan media today. Radio stations featured call-in shows of people, especially men, paying their respects. In many tribes having several wives was a sign of wealth and status for a man. Danger Akuku represented the ultimate symbol of traditional manhood -- and of a time when gender relations seemed more simple than today.

In Akuku's lifetime, the traditional roles of women in Kenya have changed. There are now as many women in universities as men, women hold top level positions in companies and even in rural areas have less children than in years past.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; kenya; moralabsolutes; napl; obamathekenyan; prolife
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Don’t sell yourself short.


21 posted on 10/05/2010 2:14:00 PM PDT by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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To: TheThirdRuffian; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono
He takes after his daddy, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, father to 57 kids...


22 posted on 10/05/2010 2:14:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: utherdoul

In Africa, its the other way around. The women work to support the men.


23 posted on 10/05/2010 2:18:06 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: constitutiongirl

“Don?t sell yourself short”

Apparently this guy wasn’t.


24 posted on 10/05/2010 2:33:24 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Little Ray

As it should be.


25 posted on 10/05/2010 2:42:32 PM PDT by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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To: Little Bill
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26 posted on 10/05/2010 3:39:25 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja (Live and Let Live; is not working...)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

if that pic is recent then i would have to say he was a fairly attractive and well preserved fellow for 99. particularly in such a primitive place as Kenya.


27 posted on 10/05/2010 4:24:49 PM PDT by madamemayhem (defeat is not getting knocked down, it is not getting back up.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Well he certainly isn’t uhbama’s. He does look like he could be harry’s daddy. harry’s a ringer for this guy.


28 posted on 10/05/2010 4:29:51 PM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Is "Akuku" Swahili for "Clinton?"


29 posted on 10/06/2010 12:39:09 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Clinton never married any of them except his fellow traveler.


30 posted on 10/06/2010 4:39:20 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: constitutiongirl
"...I’m dissapointed in his looks. I thought he’d at least be as handsome as Idris Elba or Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje...."

He's OK looking, but he is no Manute Bol. Manute makes me weak in the knees, even when sitting down!

31 posted on 10/06/2010 6:51:04 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

A Coo Coo. He expired to escape 100 mother-in-laws.


32 posted on 10/06/2010 8:04:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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