Have you seen the viral video online, where an African woman said, “We have over 1.5 million women and only 600,000 men. We need husbands from outside!”?
The woman speaking was from Lesotho, a tiny, high‑altitude country hidden within South Africa, and her appeal has since blown up across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.
But how true is this shortage of men? And why are Basotho women (as they are called) openly calling for foreign men to marry them?
Before we get into the reasons, here’s a bit about the country.
