Women who pride in paying their dowry price

KENYA: Stories have been told of women who boost their social image by writing love letters to themselves. Others buy and send themselves gifts, delivered in the office. The game has been taken a notch higher, with some women now paying their own dowry.

For almost a year and a half, Erick Mwatela became a guest of the Coast General Hospital. He literally spent most of his nights and days at the mortuary to guard his wife’s dead body. Since March last year, Mwatela had been shuttling between the hospital and Mombasa law court where he has constantly been battling with his father in-law — mzee Munga, over his rights to bury his wife.