Kewe

Kewé, at 25, was the youngest we talked to. She has two boys, around ages 2 and 4. She lives in Dakar, in a different house from her 45-year-old co-wife. Her 50-year-old husband spends the week with Kewé and the weekend with his first wife. According to Kewé the first wife hates her and is still angry with their husband. I asked Kewé why she chose to marry a man who already had a wife. She said, “I loved him; he loved me; and God allows men to have many wives. So we got married.”