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The Bride Price is a 1976 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It was first published in the UK by Allison & Busby , and in the USA by George Braziller . Centered on women during the Nigerian postcolonial era, Emecheta dedicated the book 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 ...
Book series published have included Motive, [9] A&B Poetry, [10] Allison and Busby Writer's Guides, [11] Allison & Busby Twentieth Century Classics, [12] and The Blind Detective Series. [ 13 ] The company was acquired by W. H. Allen Ltd in 1987, was subsequently part of Virgin Publishing , [ 14 ] and has since "evolved and thrived under various ...
This sequel to Emecheta's 1972 novel In the Ditch was written after Emecheta had left her unhappy marriage and was raising her five children as a single mother. On the dedication page to Second Class Citizen, the author references "my dear children, Florence, Sylvester, Jake, Christy and Alice, without whose sweet background noises this book would not have been written".
A bride got a "shoulder meat" guest book in a shocking mixup. In less than two weeks, Tara Henderson is getting married to Kevin Porter. She was excited to find that her custom wedding guest book ...
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It acted as a replacement of the biblical mohar, the price paid by the groom to the bride, or her parents, for the marriage (i.e., the bride price). [7] The ketubah served as a contract, whereby the amount due to the wife (the bride-price) came to be paid in the event of the cessation of marriage, either by the death of the husband or divorce.