Jamhuri wives: They came face to face with polygamy, patriarchy and culture shock

The euphoria of freedom was in the air in the run up to Kenya’s Independence in December 1963.
Lockdowns were over, racial segregation too. The White colonialists were leaving, and Black African elites were returning from studies abroad-with White or African-American wives in tow.

Never mind kissing a White woman,  for instance, was a punishable offence. These dashing Kenyan men, most of them beneficiaries of educational airlifts, had also been studying in Apartheid South Africa and India where caste system reigns supreme.