By David Maillu Published January 2, 2024 According to the Roman Catholic Church's traditional setting, sex is only allowed in the marriage between man and woman, and homosexuality is described as “intrinsically disordered.” The Christian marriage doctrine is based on...
By David Maillu Published September 28, 2023 I have just listened to a presenter on BBC talking about the diminishing glacier in Austria and its devastating consequences to the socio-economics of the community. Then another comment was made by another speaker...
By David Maillu Published September 24, 2023 If a man steals a cow and is caught in Maasai community, he is punished by being made to pay seven cows besides the one he has stolen. Obviously, it is impossible for him as an individual to afford the payment without any...
By David Maillu Published September 22, 2023 Married men appear to die earlier than their wives. In countryside widows are everywhere while widowers are rare. The social life of widows is easily addressed by the children. In whatever happens, children appear to remain...
By David Maillu Published September 16, 2023 Divorce is one of the bitterest things in human social life. The rate of divorce differs from one community to another. In traditional Africa divorce was rare because of the advanced social fabric in which communities...
By David Maillu Published September 12, 2023 I recently published a question on Facebook asking, “What criteria would you consider best qualities of a wife?” One of the first persons to answer was a man who said, “To me, the first qualification is that she be a...
By David Maillu Published September 11, 2023 Former Chief Justice of Kenya, Willy Mutunga, described Kenya as a bandit economy. Why? Because a lot of what happens up in the sleeves of leadership and engineering economy, is dominated by banditry exercises. The story of...
By David Maillu Published September 4, 2023 In Kikamba language there is a word, “wiu.” You hear in Akamba tradition that no burial in the family should take place during the “wiu” condition. Although the word means “blackness,” it refers to menstruation. That is, if...
By David Maillu Published September 1, 2023 There are people born with special and deadly bodily attributes which qualify them to be given certain names. Stories abound that there are people who are, by fate design, misfortune causers. In scientific language, they are...