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e. 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 ...
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 original custom in Bangladesh was the bride price, called pawn, where the groom's family makes a payment to the bride's parents. This has gradually been replaced by the dowry, called joutuk. This transition in customs began in the 1960s. [85] By the early 21st century, the bride price has been supplanted by the dowry.
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.
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 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 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
Nigeria in the 19th century showing the Tiv lands. The Tiv believe they emerged into their present location from the southeast. It is claimed [5] that the Tiv wandered through southern, south-central and west-central Africa before arriving at the savannah lands of West African Sudan via the River Congo and Cameroon Mountains and settled at Swemkaragbe the region adjoining Cameroon and Nigeria ...