Musa Hasahya Kasera, a Ugandan villager, who has 12 wives, 102 children and as many as 578 grandchildren, says that he has had enough. Kasera has so many children he can’t remember most of their names. The entire family with its hundreds of members lives in the family home in rural Butaleja district in eastern Uganda.
The Ugandan villager is struggling to provide for his vast family. According to him, at first it was a joke, but he has realised now that his irresponsible act of producing so many children has its problems. With his health failing and merely two acres of land for such a huge family, two of his wives left him because he could not afford the basics like food, education, and clothing.
Hasahya’s brood lives largely in a dilapidated house, its corrugated iron roof rusting away, or in about two dozen grass-thatched mud huts nearby. The family has become a kind of tourist attraction for people.
He married his first wife in 1972 at a traditional ceremony when they were both about 17. His first child, Sandra Nabwire, was born a year later. Hasahya now has 102 children ranging in age from 10 to 50 while his youngest wife is about 35.