Hamisa Mobetto is proof we need to accept polygamy

Hamisa Mobetto has just been linked to a new man. Again. For the tenth time in two years. Hooray for her and the fact she can clearly still attract high value, high networth men despite being the single mother of two children.

Hamisa Mobetto unveils the new potential boyfriend she hopes to settle down with (Photos)

Hamisa Mobetto has been spotted all around Tanzania’s party haven, Dar es Salaam having fun with her new beau and this exciting development in her love-life almost overshadowed the fact that his wife came out to declare her existence. And it got me wondering why we as a people do not just openly embrace polygamy.

Polygyny was a firm staple in traditional African societies. Infact it was an institution that was governed by tribal law and there were expectations of the men who wanted to take on more than one wife. The men would have to be wealthy enough to support multiple families. There was no excuse for a man of lean means trying to take on a second wife. The community wouldn’t let him.

Machoos! Hamisa Mobetto spends day in police custody while baby daddy weds long term girlfriend (Photos)

The institution also existed in some communities to take care of widows and single mothers. Hamisa Mobetto falls into the latter category so she is taken care of. And this formed some rudimentary social security in pre-colonial Africa as the women and their offspring now had a legacy and inheritance apportioned to them and their bastards.

These days, however, talking to any woman will let you believe that she would rather her husband stays monogamous (a social construct that goes against evolved human instinct) and should that fail, then for him to secretly take on a lover and keep things discrete.

Women like Hamisa Mobetto however show that this is not a sensible stance to take because when she gets a man, he is more often than not already married and they always lose their heads to the NRE (new relationship energy). What happens if she conceives her third child? Why would you as a woman wish the agony of contesting a will on yourself and all your husband’s children?

Hamisa Mobetto allegedly bags herself wealthy married man (Photo)

Rather than take things along this destructive path, why not just agree to allow polygyny to return and we as a society begin to ensure the protection of everyone involved in a less adversarial manner? We can even insist on the members of parliament to legislate laws that govern how such matters are to be conducted. Rather than women having to face-off with their own proverbial Hamisa Mobetto?

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