Relatives of Kenya’s most famous polygamist started a Facebook page in a bid to connect with each other and get as many as possible to attend his funeral.
The Facebook “AKUKU DANGER FAMILY” is also set up as a tribute to the man. His burial is set on Dec 4, in order to give family members time to travel.
Accentus Akuku was nicknamed “Danger” because of his physical appearance and ability to attract women.
According to the ABC news, Akuku had 100 wives. His first marriage took place in 1939 and his last marriage took place in 1992. He became a polygamist at the age of 22. Akuku established two elementary schools solely to educate his children, as well as a church for his growing family to attend.
Members of the family told Kenya’s Daily Nation newspapers that he was a man who valued discipline and work ethic, but was not a tyrant.
27 years after their romance fizzled out, two former sweethearts who were reunited through Facebook are getting married next month.
Paul Eaton was 29 when he fell for Dawn Pitman, then 21, while she was staying at her mum’s B&B. They split up after 18 months because Dawn felt she was too young to settle down.
Both went their separate ways and had children. However, they never forgot each other. A twist of fate struck like Cupid’s arrow when Paul, from Barnsley, South Yorks, spotted holiday photos of his first love on Facebook.
“It was totally a chance thing. I had only been on Facebook for a day. I just typed Dawn’s name in and hoped for the best,” Paul said according to the Mirror.
Apparently, a niece of Dawn, 48, now a care worker posted the pictures on Facebook.
“If I hadn’t been on Facebook we would have never got back together,” said Dawn.
“She always said we would see each other again. I just didn’t think it would take 27 years,” adds Paul according to the source.
After a tearful reunion on New Year’s Eve 2008 and a holiday together in Thailand, they plan to invite 300 friends and relatives to their wedding in Exmouth on March 20, but are not yet decided whether to set up home in Devon or Yorkshire.
In Indonesia, a country just north of Australia, two siblings found each other through Facebook, after being separated for 35 years.
Brother and sister, Anton and Nurlianti Dehi, got separated in 1974. Anton, then in his early twenties, left their home in Palu, the capital city of Central Sulawesi Province in Indonesia. He moved to Manado, North Sulawasi Province’s capital city, to find work.
For the first two years, Anton kept in touch with his family in Palu. However, in 1977, the Dehi family lost touch with him. Nurlianti looked for Anton for many years but eventually gave up when she could find no trace of him.
More than 30 years later, when Nurlianti heard about Facebook, she immediately signed up, hoping that she will find her brother through the social networking site. She was not mistaken. Nurlianti and Anton’s daughter, Risna, met in the site. Through her neice, Nurlianti found that Anton and his family had moved to Jombang. Jombang is a city in Java, an island west of Sulawasi.
When Nurlianti and Anton talked over the phone, she was skeptical that it was really him. She was filled with joy when Anton disclosed some childhood memories they both shared. Finally, Nurlianti had found her long lost brother.
Facebook is not only a site where one can reach out to old friends or play games. It is also a site that can reunite long lost family members.
