No one could really explain why Ssebaduka married Nagawa. She was very dark-skinned, yet Ssebaduka and his entire family were very dark as well. His mother used to joke about ‘diluting’ their skin colour by marrying a lighter person. However, the truth is Ssebaduka liked Nagawa’s ‘inner beauty and that was all that mattered to him. Recently, Ssebaduka went to drive some goods to Mombasa as part of his work, and he ended up staying there for ‘kyeyo’ for 3 months.
At that time, things were changing with his wife. He came back to find a very light-skinned wife in his house. Nagawa laughed off his concerns and said it was her new and improved look. Ssebaduka is very unhappy and yesterday, he finally told Nagawa that he did not want or marry a light-skinned woman so he will be getting a divorce.
Can Someone be divorced for bleaching?
WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?.
According to the law, even married people can go their separate ways and end their marriage. This process is called a divorce. However, there are procedures and ways that a divorce must take place between two people for the law to recognise it.
First, the divorce must take place in a court of law because marriage is a more serious contract than the usual contract between two people. This can be in a civil court or an Islamic court, depending on the type of marriage you have.
Secondly, you must have a reason why you want to end your marriage, such as adultery (where one spouse has a sexual relationship with a person who is not their spouse), cruelty (behaviour that the other person is not reasonably expected to continue living with like bad manners), change of religion or desertion (where a spouse goes away for more than 2 years with no reasonable excuse). These reasons vary depending on the type of marriage. So, to get a divorce, you must prove to the court that one of these reasons exists in your marriage.
Therefore, bleaching is not a valid reason to seek a divorce from a court, and Ssebaduka cannot state ‘bleaching’ as the reason why he wants to divorce Nagawa. However, if Ssebaduka can show the court that bleaching was unreasonable behaviour that a person cannot live with and fundamentally destroyed what the marriage could be, then he may rely on the reason for cruelty, but it depends on the facts that are before the court.
For example, if Ssebaduka can prove that he cannot be reasonably expected to continue living with a person who bleached when he married and was only interested in a dark-skinned person, and this has a provable effect on his continuing the marriage, then the court may grant his request for a divorce.
Source: BarefootLawyers
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