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Polyamorous farmer Musa Hasahya says that he’s not having any more children because of inflation. The 67-year-old Ugandan man has fathered 102 kids with 12 different women, and he told Pulse Ghana that the “rising cost of living” is stopping him from continuing. Hasahya has 568 grandchildren and 12 wives and claims he can no longer take care of them, so he’s requested all of the women to start on contraceptives.
“My income has become lower and lower over the years due to the rising cost of living, and my family has become bigger and bigger,” Hasahya told the outlet. The farmer lives in Lusaka, Uganda, where polygamy – taking multiple wives simultaneously – is legal. Despite all of them living in the same house as him, in order to “monitor them and also stop them from eloping with other men in this village,” he’s struggling to feed them and support them financially.
Hasahya suffers from ailing health and can no longer work, severely decreasing the family’s salary. His youngest wife, the mother to 11 of his children and 21 years younger than his oldest child, says she agrees and is done having kids. Zulaika claimed, “I’m not having any more children. I’ve seen the bad financial situation and am now taking the birth control pill,” She told the outlet.
A portion of the Ugandan farmer’s children live with him on his farm – those ages range from 6 to 51 years old. And regardless of the financial situation that he finds himself in, Hasahya says that he doesn’t regret or condone his lifestyle. Pulse reported that he said, “I married one woman after another. How can a man be satisfied with one woman?” He continued to affirm that having so many children wasn’t an issue until inflation made it difficult to support them.