In 2016, the High Court made a landmark ruling allowing cousins to marry or engage in a relationship. According to judge James Makau, dating your cousin does not amount to incest.
But some communities still have not accepted this arrangement. Eying your cousin is considered a very big taboo in many Kenyan communities. But what happens when you don’t know that you’re dating your cousin?
A lady has asked for advice on what she should do after she found out that her boyfriend’s grandmother is in fact blood sisters with her grandmother.
“l am a lady of 21 years I have been dating this guy for two years and we were planning in future that we shall marry,, now it came to our knowledge that my grandmother and his gradmother are of the same father but different mother,, so that means we in the third generation, and so we are cousins,,, swali langu n je wat can we do coz we are really in love and true love I mean.”
What advice can you give to this girl?