Cheating is not culture, betrayal is not a minor affair

FOR generations, society has manufactured a convenient shroud of normalisation to excuse male infidelity. Whenever a husband strays, the cultural reflex is swift and predictable: justifications are summoned from antiquity, citing biblical patriarchs or ancestral traditions of polygyny.

Platitudes like hakuna murume asingahure ( there is no man who does not womanise), “all men are the same,” and the chilling ultimatum “where will you find a better man?”

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