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My husband is pregnant, and it is a laughing matter

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How on earth is the husband pregnant? That was the first question I put out to 23-year-old Barack Baraza, the scriptwriter and producer of a new stage play that premiers on Saturday next week at Taifa Hall, Nairobi University.

"It is all about our society that is not well-versed in local family customs," Baraza responded. "It is about the idiosyncrasies of modern society where a married man is rearing children he never fathered or where he ends impregnating his mother-in-law, or his baby mama's mother."

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