By Dr Okumba Miruka
What you need to know:
From side chicks to co-wives, the debate exposes tensions between culture and modern fidelity.
Literature and lived realities collide in examining the enduring phenomenon of 'the other woman'.
A director of a blue chip company commits suicide allegedly because of blackmail by his manipulative extramarital lover who threatened to expose their affair to his wife unless he met her extravagant financial demands. A senior medical doctor collapses and dies in the residence of his extramarital companion, with the wife reportedly acknowledging that, given his professional and financial stature, it should not have been a surprise that other women had an eye for him. A politician publicly announces that he is a proud polygamist after which social media is abuzz with claims by an apparently neglected lover that he is a deadbeat father.
