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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. [2] The money being paid as bride price is being announced to the hearing of everyone ...
The Bride Price. 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.
A bride price is the amount paid by the groom to the parents of a bride for them to consent to him marrying their daughter. In some countries, the younger the bride, the higher the bride price. [88] [89] This practice can create an economic incentive where girls are sought and married early by her family to the highest bidder. Child marriages ...
In traditional weddings, customs vary slightly from one part of Nigeria to the other. In Southern, Western and Eastern parts of Nigeria, it is called the traditional wedding ceremony. Officials and elders sip wine while they invite the couple in for introductions and negotiations, and presentation of the bride price which consists mainly of ...
The Lion and the Jewel is a play by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka that was first performed in 1959 in Ibadan. [1] In 1966, it was staged in London ,, England, at the Royal Court Theatre. [2] The play chronicles how Baroka, the lion, fights with the modern Lakunle over the right to marry Sidi, the titular Jewel. [3]
The traditional customs of dowry and bride price contribute to the practice of forced marriage. [94] [95] [96] A dowry is the property or money that a wife (or wife's family) brings to her husband upon marriage. [97] A bride price is an amount of money or property or wealth paid by the groom (or his family) to the parents of the bride upon ...
The customs of bride price and dowry, that exist in parts of the world, can lead to buying and selling people into marriage. [87] [88] In some societies, ranging from Central Asia to the Caucasus to Africa, the custom of bride kidnapping still exists, in which a woman is captured by a man