Polygamy Is Our Culture

ALLOW me space in to express my views on the new amendments to the marriage laws in your esteemed paper.
 As a Namibian youth I have come across and listened to many criticisms as to how the West has manipulated and influenced our mindsets.
 I equally argue that our elders have become victims of Westernisation.

ALLOW me space in to express my views on the new amendments to the marriage laws in your esteemed paper.
As a Namibian youth I have come across and listened to many criticisms as to how the West has manipulated and influenced our mindsets.
I equally argue that our elders have become victims of Westernisation. Polygamy is a historic practice common in most, if not all, Namibian cultures. This practice has witnessed its extermination due to adaptation of western laws.
To argue that this marriage practice encourages the spread of and new HIV-AIDS infections is an insult to our cultures and customs. Our parents in polygamous matrimony remain as faithful as any partner in monogamous nuptials.
As far as HIV infections are concerned, transmission occurs when partners of different HIV status have unprotected sexual activities. Unless it is now a mathematical issue where two negatives equal a positive, then one has to argue otherwise. How do I spread or encourage new HIV infection if I am faithful to my two wives and vice versa?
Let us not be tricked or misled to abandon our cultural practices. It is not only our cultural marriages losing value but a lot of other customs due to adaptation to Western laws.

Kabende Kidd
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