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Looking alike can cause trouble

It is common to find members of a family who look alike. There are children who look like their parents, siblings who look alike resemble their parents, siblings who look like and even cousins who look like twins.

Among the unstated reasons some Kenyans visit a newborn baby is to assess the baby’s resemblance to its family members. That is why you hear comments such as: “That baby is definitely Baba Boi’s. Its face looks exactly like the father’s”.

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