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Polygamy is legal in Uganda, where a man is allowed to marry multiple wives at a time. Due to this, most families tend to contain an abundance of children. [citation needed] According to the 2014 Census of Uganda, 8.3% of all women aged 18 years or more, were currently married or cohabiting in a polygamous relationship, and 7.1% of men. [1]
In 1960 the Uganda Council of Women led by Edith Mary Bataringaya passed a resolution urging that laws regarding marriage, divorce, and inheritance should be recorded in written form and publicized nationwide—a first step toward codifying customary and modern practices. During the first decade of independence, this council also pressed for ...
The influx of Indians throughout Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and other neighboring countries contributed to numerous Ugandan-Indian unions in Uganda--especially in small towns located along the Railway. Traders--who were mostly Indian and male--married local Ugandan women, thus birthing a visible emergence of mixed Ugandan-Indian people. [6]
A Ugandan woman whom locals have dubbed "the world's most fertile woman" has been told that she is no longer allowed to have children, Australia's 7 News reported. Mariam Nabatanzi has given birth ...
Safina Namukwaya gave birth to a boy and a girl on Wednesday via cesarean section at the hospital in the […] The post 70-year-old Ugandan woman gives birth to twins after fertility treatment ...
A 70-year-old woman in Uganda has given birth to twins after receiving fertility treatment, making her one of the world's oldest new mothers. Safina Namukwaya gave birth to a boy and a girl on ...
Marriage to the Yoruba was not focused on love but rather on structure and order. Some African academics have argued that this is a strong foundation for a society and that it is the woman's role to attend to household duties. [11] This standpoint is particularly polarizing and has not been backed up by scientific data.
Registration for nationality upon marriage of a woman with a Ugandan husband remained in the provisions. [88] The 1971 Ugandan coup d'état would lead to the expulsion of the Asian-Ugandan community from the territory. [82] The Idi Amin declared himself president and decreed that the unprocessed applications for registration from 1964 were ...