How poverty determines your place, even in death

Funeral with casket carried by coffin bearer [Getty Images]

The video of a widow being whipped in Kisii went viral and added another blot to the bad rap Abagusii men have been getting online. The three main communities in Western; Abagusii, Luhya and Luo have a near identical culture in regards to widows during burial of the man of the home.

The case in Kisii only came about because the deceased was not a man of means. If he had left some resources to be inherited, that lady would have rushed to ask for soil to throw into the grave. As we castigate the people who whipped her to throw in the soil, lets spare some bile for poverty as well.