Akon on Having Multiple Wives (youtube.com)
It's culture, he said. Whereas the Westerners in the room were like, yeah multiple women sounds good but multiple wives is like more problems, but his situation is different because, we might guess, the women are not typical, or he has just taught them a non-standard way of marriage. The women two are Americans (born in America) and others are Senegalese and Ugandan.
He said ‘It makes your life so much easier.' Which sounds like it makes no sense to the ears of any Western man. And he continued, ‘Wives are like your best friends. They always got your back. No matter what. They’re gonna hold you down, they're gonna support, they're gonna protect. So your perimeter is already occupied by your soldiers. Cause they're not gonna let nothing come in that's gonna defy, effect, or in any kind of way create a bad environment for you.'
How many wives are required for the security of a man, they asked. Although it depends on the individual,
He expressed a clearly ultra-'traditional' view though, where there is a kind in the household, a queen, and children, and none of them have a say, there's no ‘democracy’. What the kind, the top position, says always goes, and everybody else follows suit. He pointed out that if you have a democracy and try to have the woman have power because to make her happy, ‘you’re never gonna be happy, because women are never happy.' ‘What makes women (actually) happy is the happy environment.’ ‘They environment doesn't allow them to be depressed. What they want, it's provided, it's there, what they need, they don't have to look for. When they feel safe.'
He advises against putting all the women in one place. All the women have their own mansion in their own state, their own environment. You want to make sure everyone is treated equally though.
I would like to know how he structured his marriages legally. Also, what happens when the women get lonely, after not seeing their husband for another several months?