An African man is making headlines on social media for having 16 wives and children.
A man from a small village in Tanzania named Mzee Ernesto has married 16 women and has over 100 children and 144 grandchildren.
Taking care of more than two or three children is a burden for most young people these days, but then there are people like Mzee Ernesto who have dedicated their lives to expanding their families.
His home resembles a small village, with a separate house for each of his wives and the people there work and take care of dozens of young children.
In a recent interview, Mzee said that he started expanding his family at the request of his father.
He married his first wife in 1961 and had his first child a year later, but his father told him that one wife was not enough.
The son said that his father offered to take on the entire burden of marriage if he agreed to have more wives and have more children.
