Nollywood actor Jibola Dabo, who has five children from
different women said in a recent interview with TheNetng that he's an
ardent supporter of polygamy and believes that most men in Africa are
polygamous in nature. Read what he said below and tell us if you agree
with him...
"People misunderstands what polygamy means. I am an
ardent supporter of polygamy. Every single man, mostly from Africa, is
polygamous in nature. We are just deceiving ourselves. Polygamy means
when you see a woman you love and desire, you marry her with the consent
of your already married wife and bring her home. It's not when you have
one wife at home, then you have others scattered in different other
places, that is not polygamy. And not when you have three wives and you
cannot take care of one, that is an insult to polygamy. There are so
many women out there who just want to have a man as an umbrella, but we
keep saying one man one woman. Yet the women keep suffering. We all know
that we have much more women in this world than men, the ratio is too
high.
My father had six wives, my uncle that brought me up had so many
wives also. What I am saying is that it is not illegal, we are not in
America. Ironically, the white man would have one wife and still keep so
many mistresses. If not, there wouldn't have been an English word for
concubines. That means it exists in their culture. Which is better,
concubines or wives? In the days when polygamy was well respected,
diseases were not rampant. It is now that when men hide to do it that
strange sexually transmitted diseases have become the order of the day"
he said.
"I have
only one wife but I have children from more than one woman. And its not
because I had mistresses, its because I have lived in various
countries, including America, France, Britain etc. I am this person that
any woman that comes to me would always want to have something for me. I
have had experiences. I was with a woman and years later, a child was
brought to me, a child I didn't know when it was conceived". he added
