In Kenya's prisons, inmates follow a unique marriage tradition where prisoners bring wedding items like ugali (maize porridge) and a cake, and the groom receives a handmade aluminum ring crafted in prison workshops; this formal marriage process helps prisoners cope with the harsh realities of prison life, providing emotional stability and a sense of purpose, with some inmates even serving 30 years without ever seeing their families outside.
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Ex-Convict Vincent Kadima explains the 'Marriage Process’ in many of Kenya’s Prisons todayAdded:
I am now a condem, I am being introduced to the condem blog and the condem blog, there is no going out, not like these life sentences, and when you are a condem, you know 30 minutes, 30 minutes, that's what you know, and that's what you wash your clothes, let them dry, that 30 minutes, that 30 minutes, and not that you have a lot of clothes there, the documentation has given you that one dress you are wearing, that one and one mororo and one bracelet, that is, when you get there, don't beg people, stay with your things, don't bring social media again, start bringing a case that you got married there, until the wedding is held, and the cake is there, so it's ugali, it's well-cooked [laughter] and may kiss the bride, because I was saying that people should guess, oh, it's not there, it's live [laughter] there's nothing there, now when they see each other, they guess, you know, it's for them, you know, when they're at the house, they just guess, like [laughter] they are the ones who are in charge, they are the people in charge, and the ring, until the ring, the ring, it's not where, the ring, it's not that, those aluminum ones are made there, the ring, it's not those are the same ones you still see those ones are hammered good they are sent there why in the workshop they are hammered well they come back with tomboleo well only the best is steel aluminum the best is only steel until the pen still even the suko suko is used the same ten bob you know the old one in the middle is removed so no it remains there is a hole that hole is hammered until it comes it is hammered becomes big then it returns it is made designs until the finger goes in well in you get married officially that is you get married officially until that is it becomes that is m mi is a wife of water and jail knows wife of water jail knows the wife also recognizes herself the wife recognizes herself until she knows until the wife walks she drops eh sindio she drops other Malayans imdio she is a hot cake there. It's his place, he's a stranger first, when you're a stranger first, oh he's a stranger now, oh when you're a stranger, you're there and there are those who decide to grow up like that, that's how they survive there, not there, it's how they survive there, life there is hard, there's someone there, someone has been there for 30 years, he's never even been seen, good, you've seen it, so this old man has to get married, that's how his life cooled down there.
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