Burnt Bridges: Mother marries her son.
Betty Mbereko a 40
year old African woman from Mwenezi in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, has been a widow for
12 years now and all that is about to end. She has found her prince and like
most women have put the horse before the cart by being 6 months pregnant for
him and that is not even the problem. The real issue here isn’t that the man Farai Mbereko is just 24 years
old with a 16 years age difference between them but that the man in question is her
biological son. Her defense is that she loves her son so much and they had been
through thick and thin together, throughout the 12 years that she was a widow
and she preferred her son to any of her husband’s younger brothers who have
been unrelentingly coveting her.
In Africa, it is not uncommon for siblings of a deceased to
inherit the deceased's properties including his wife, just the way it was
recorded in the bible. The practice has since died down due to civilization
mostly but such wave of civilization has probably still eluded people in
masvingo in Zimbabwe.
Betty has admitted to a court in her locality last week ,
that she had ignited this weird flame between herself and her son three years
ago. She went ahead to state that she had been the only woman farai has known
and she had paid his school fees and groomed him into a man and that no woman
deserved to reap the fruits of her labor.
Farai himself is loving all the attention, his late father
coincidentally had not fully paid the bride price of his mother before he
kicked the bucket and he was prepared to not only pay off the chicken change
but also jump the broom with his mother. In his own words,” he said, I want
people to know that I am the one who impregnated my mother and I am ready to marry
her, so no one should accuse her of promiscuity.”
As expected, every one in the African village acted like
this is the worst thing they have ever heard and some of the local village
chiefs even considered assassinating the love birds but were afraid of being
apprehended by the police.
In fairness to farai, I once lusted after one of my aunties,
until my mom had her thrown out of the house, after an humping session in the
back alley. One of the greatest tragedy of being a male is that the male
genital grows and develops faster than the male brain. So lust is mistaken for
love, and everything in between.
Betty on the other hand probably needs a shrink to
differentiate between her husband who she married at the tender age of sixteen
and gave birth to a son for and her own son who is probably a split image of
his father. The question here is what happens when the baby is born . What
would happen when the child realizes that his mother is also his grand mother?. Worst
of all, if the baby is a girl, would farai be attracted to her and then start
banging her, continuing the incestuous cycle that runs in the family? . What if
the baby is a boy and he also gets attracted to his grandmother and mother?. What would farai call his wife, mum or baby? What
if they fall out of love and farai gets his groove back, would he break up with
his mum or cheat on his wife.?
The important thing right now, is that everyone is safe from the prying eyes of the cannibalistic
African men lying in wait to slay them for the same reasons we are writing about
them. The weirdest things go down in African , well after china and India
though.
