Reading Notes: Africa (Congo) Part A

This week I read How Kengi Lost Her Child from the African Unit. This story is by Richard Edward Dennett and came out of Congo!

-This story starts off with polygamy...off to a great start!
-In all seriousness this story was really sad as 2 women fought over land and the things they grew on it.
-The land was split evenly by the husband in the beginning of the story.

A sweet baby Source

-One day one of the woman, named Gunga, stole some beans from her sister wife, Kengi's, land.
-The woman made an agreement that basically whatever is produced on each respective land is theirs!
-One day Gunga was chilling, Kengi came over to beg fro tobacco as she was addicted and getting sick from not having any!
-While on Gunga's land, Kengi gives birth to a child!
-Gunga says that because it was born on her land, the child belongs to her (kinda makes sense in a very literal interpretation of their agreement)
-They take their cases to court and....
GUNGA WINS!
-this could be made easily into an everyday kind of story as a kid is in the middle of a custody battle!