Musa Hassaji is 67-year-old at that age you would call him a pensioner, but as they say that age is just a number, for now he can be described as a father of many nations this if the number of children he has sired are anything to go by.
In times of global crises, Musa’s family is arguably the largest in his native Uganda and probably across the East African region. Musa is married to 10 wives and is a father of 98 children and has 568 grandchildren.
That is to say that each of his wives has given birth to at least nine children It is believed he started quite early, at 17 instead of being in High School Musa had sired his first child.
The polygamous man shares one house with all his wives but has built little other houses for his children around the vast compound he owns. “All of these people you see here are my family. I have fathered 98 children with 10 women,” he said proudly.
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Some of his children are not only grown up but are also married, while the younger ones are still in school.
The irony to Musa’s story is that Musa himself was born into a family of only two children yet they struggled to make ends meet.
Despite being brought up in abject squalor and dropping out of school in Standard Six, Musa managed to get into business and turned his fortunes around.
“I became so wealthy that every family whose door I knocked and asked for a bride they immediately gave me,” he says.
His youngest wife Kakazi is younger than some of his grandchildren, adding that he can differentiate the children but does not know all their names.
