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The Bride Price is a 1976 novel (first published in the UK by Allison & Busby and in the USA by George Braziller) by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It concerns, in part, the problems of women in post-colonial Nigeria. The author dedicated this novel to her mother, Alice Ogbanje Emecheta.
Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, [1] bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry. Bride dowry is equivalent to dowry paid to the groom in some cultures, or used by the bride to help establish ...
This is the stage of paying the bride price or dowry. It starts with a minimum amount called "Rubu Dinar" in Hausa, ranging to the highest amount the groom can afford to pay. Islamic teaching teaches that a lesser dowry paid produces a more blessed marriage. The money being paid as bride price is being announced to the hearing of everyone present.
The Bride Price. Second Class Citizen is a 1974 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta, first published in London by Allison and Busby, where her editor was Margaret Busby. It was subsequently published in the US by George Braziller in 1975. A poignant [neutrality is disputed] story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal ...
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Buchi Emecheta. Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian-born novelist, based in the UK from 1962, [1] who also wrote plays and an autobiography, as well as works for children. She was the author of more than 20 books, including Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl ...
The ancestral homeland of the Yandang people is Gorobi in Adamawa State. A beautiful landscape surrounded by mountains and hills that shielded them from slave trade raiders till the twentieth century. In Gorobi, the Yandang people is divided into seventeen clans. The seventeen clans are also subdivided into houses and sub-clans.
Olakunbi Ojuolape Olasope is a Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She is an expert on Roman social history, Greek and Roman theatre, and Yoruba classical performance culture. Olasope is known in particular for her work on the reception of classical drama in West Africa, especially the work of the ...