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Few know that many Bukusu leaders share a taste for exotic love. It is actually among this charming Luhya sub-tribe that you will find a Chinese wife! It could be a coincidence. But at least 10 former and sitting MPs, including political stalwarts like the late Elijah Mwangale, the late VP Michael Kijana Wamalwa and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Secretary-General Dr Mukhisa Kituyi, all took foreign wives.
Former Cabinet ministers Noah Wekesa and Musikari Kombo, Webuye East MP Alfred Sambu, and former Saboti MP Davis Nakitare, were not left behind either. Elders from the society we spoke to point out several factors that drive Bukusu men to choose white women for wives, despite the difficulties of introducing a foreign woman to alien cultural beliefs and practices.
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