Why Martha Karua Ignored Traditions and Built Maisonette on Her Father’s Land

[Mwalimu-G]

So these mzees are just being stupid?

which mzees? the taboos and mythical elders are only in the stupid reporter's muddled brain.

 

[MbitikaZetu]

No Kikuyu taboo prevents a divorced or unmarried woman from building a house in her father's land. Huyo writer awache uwongo

 

[Abba]

What is viewed as a taboo is for her to get married then divorce and get buried kwa makaburi yetu especially kwanza kama she got her dowry.

Brother this is one thing that I fight my uncle over and over. So if she gets divorced, has kids and she's very poor, so akifa azikwe kwa makaburi langata like she had no ancestral home because ya mila?

Would you have liked to be treated like that if you were a divorcee and a woman?... Duke women are humans too. My sister is a divorcee and I fought tooth and nail to have her son build a house for his mother on my share of land. I told my kins "We will leave all this behind and maybe some of you will die even before you use it. Muwache uchoyo "

I have given mine equally to my daughters and son at their early age. I wont discriminate my children. Break that vicious cycle my brother.

 

[Kamau wa Kíríro]

You mean Njoka pinned her to the ground twice and fathered her two kids ? Apana .... Chinese saying , kìrema arùme nìkigariùre

And ng'enda thí ndíagaga mútegi

 

[Kamau wa Kíríro]

@Mwalimu-G , imagine this is where our journalism has reached. Really, really low.

As you have pointed out, that is NOT a maisonette. It's a villa.

Secondly, and most importantly, THERE IS NO SUCH TABOO IN GIKUYU CULTURE, AND I SHOULD KNOW AS A GIKUYU ELDER.

According to our culture, a gicokio (divorced matha) has a right to be given a portion of her parents' land unless she remarries, in which case her inheritance is with her new husband. Martha never remarried, and as such has a right to inherit a portion of her father's land. What taboo is there?

These kind of nonsensical articles are what makes me read just one page of the newspaper - the one with sudoku...

......and Andy Capp