Looks like Harry Belafonte's daddy.
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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So is Reggie Love Obama’s second wife?
Kenya. Birthplace of Barack Hussein Obama. Will BO attend the funeral? Support the wives with U.S. taxpayer money? Wouldn’t surprise me.
He was more likely called “Danger” because of the many STDs he was probably carrying....
I’m just wondering how he could have supported them. Most married guys I know seem to be barely able to afford one. Besides which how do you find a woman who tolerates you having 99 other wives?
Go to Kenya apparently.
Do you think they knew???
I’m dissapointed in his looks. I thought he’d at least be as handsome as Idris Elba or Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
Talk about Big Love! There’s an HBO mini series here somewhere. I wonder if anyone has checked the family tree to see if one Barak H. Obama is related. Altough it sounds more like that other black president Bill Clinton got the family genes.
The hat makes the man— not the teeth...
The three-legged mack daddy... RIP.
We can make all the fun of the guy we want, but the fact is, Slimmy got game..
Well, his wives were not exactly pretty.
I could get a harem of 100 ugly chicks, too.
Sho ‘nuff.
unless you married sisters
Oh, many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
The widow had a grown up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed
Now this made my dad my son-in-law which changed my very life
For my daugher was my mother for she was my father's wife
To complicate the matter even tho it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy . . . . .
More Obama half-siblings?
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