Man with 102 children says enough is enough

So large is his brood that he freely admits he cannot remember some of his children’s names

If getting the kids fed, dressed and packed off to school this morning felt like an ordeal, spare a thought for Musa Hasahya Kasera.

The Ugandan villager has 102 children, but has finally said enough is enough because he cannot afford to feed and clothe them all.

So large is his brood that he freely admits he cannot remember some of his children’s names.

The first baby was born when he married the first of several wives in 1972, when he was just 16 after dropping out of school.

Since then, he has taken on more wives, paying dowries in cows and goats, and the children have been born with alarming regularity.

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They now range in age from 10 to 50. The older ones have had multiple children of their own. The whole tribe, including 578 grandchildren, lives in a state of some chaos in a family compound in the village of Bugisa, in a remote area of eastern Uganda.

Read more: The Telegraph