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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 ...
Yoruba copper mask for King Obalufon, Ife, Nigeria c. 1300 CE The Yoruba are said to be prolific sculptors, [ 6 ] famous for their terra cotta works throughout the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries; artists have also made artwork out of bronze.
e. Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced by societies with a strong clan structure in which exogamous marriage (i.e. marriage outside the clan) is forbidden.
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 Boserup's 1970 discussion of earlier analyses of polygynous systems, for example that of Little's work of the 1930s, [14] that through the hard work, economic, and agricultural assistance of a man's several wives, a husband could afford to pay the bride price of a new wife and further his access to more land, meanwhile increasing his progeny ...
It is the custom that the groom and his family pay for all the wedding expenses. The bride's family gather together before the wedding in the bride's parents house. The groom's family come and take the bride from the house in a decorated car along with the one bride's mate which usually is the bride's sister, cousin, or best friend.