A man identified as Kofi Asilenu is a husband to 12 wives and father to 100 children, and he is happy about his family life, his house hold make one third of his community, Amankrom, a village of 600 in Accra Ghana, Mr Kofi is a farmer and that is what he does to feed his family, he is a very popular man in the community, may be because of this Chinese population family, that has gain him respect in the whole village of Amakrom.
When interviewed by BBC the proud father of 100 said he will still have more children, because, according to him, that will earn him a highly prestigious burial, when he dies, adding to the things he had done to the community, he said, as a youth, he had long to have too many children because he has no siblings.
'I don?t have any brother or uncle,
that?s why I decided to have many children so that they can give me a
befitting burial when I die. In my home town if you give birth to one
child they will say you are impotent so I want to have many children.'
At the age of 80 Kofi believes he is still strong to have more children, he said it is not easy to raise such a large family with his income, though not small but really not enough to raise such a large family, but now some of his grown up children now assist the family, Kofi even finds it difficult to remember the names of all his Children, and he has mistakenly proposed to one of his daughters three year ago. Despite all these, Old Kofi still believes he can have more children, he said he has no brother, uncle or any blood relative, that he can call his biological relative, so he wish to have more as he can.
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