From marrying ghosts to female husbands: Kenyans strange cultural practices

• Many would-be spouses have gone their separate ways due to weird cultural practices dictated by their partners.
• Tales are told of urbane couples who rarely or never set foot in each other’s rural homes due to strange cultural norms enforced there.

 Take, for instance, a woman named Stacy Natasha* who confesses having been to her husband’s rural home only six times for the entire eight years they have been married. Her reason: “I hate their culture. He is from Western and they have many strange and unnecessary cultures. His people banned me from setting foot in their home, after I refused to take our second born child for what they termed the mandatory shaving of his first hair.