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Are marriages between cousins legal?

Dear Harold,

My cousins are married. Socially, the community knows they are cousins and as a family we wonder what to do and what provisions of the law says on this type of marriage. They married secretly before both families got wind of their union much later. The community now accuses them and my generation of aping behaviours from the West. What is your take on this as families are against the marriage?

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