‘I am fine with two but can get a third wife if they disturb me’

Tom Makui with his two wives Elizabeth, 23, and Joyce 25, at their home in Kisaju village, Kajiado County on Thursday. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Elizabeth Simaloi Makui, 23, and Joyce Tikoiyan Makui, 25, joke that strangers often mistake them for sisters. 

It is easy to see why. In fact, you would be forgiven to think they are twins. The women have a striking physical resemblance characterised by same height, slender frame and similar fair-skinned oval-shaped faces.