1.   Akumu, who has one wife, defends wife inheritance passionately, partly for sentimental reasons.

2.   Also wife inheritance is widespread in some communities and religious, particularly Muslims and Roman Catholic Church leaders, oppose the use of condoms.

3.   From wife inheritance to expensive funeral rites, traditions that have bound a west Kenyan culture for generations are under attack.

4.   Jane Osege argues wife inheritance slows the spread of AIDS by keeping women in stable relationships.

5.   Okullu argues that because of social and economic changes, Luos should discard wife inheritance as a relic of a bygone era.

6.   She said Kenyan laws do not support wife inheritance.

7.   Wife inheritance is blamed for spreading AIDS from widows to their new husbands and their other wives.