A man has returned his sister's bride price to the groom and sent a message to his in-laws. He explained why he took such an ...

"I don't view the Bride Price as me being paid for… Geoffrey can't afford me," says Angela, a British-born Ghanaian describing a family tradition common across Sub-Saharan Africa. "Instead I ...

In some communities, the giving of bride price is sadly regarded as ‘buying the bride’ or compensation for resources spent bringing up the young woman, writes PETER MUIRURI A few years ago ...

In South Sudan, there is an age-old practice called bride price. A groom's family pays a bride's family for the marriage, usually in cattle. As the Dinka tribe in South Sudan has a largely cattle ...

to Chen's personal bank account to meet the bride-price that was agreed upon between the two families. But his in-laws insisted that the money should have been transferred to the family's bank ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A deeply held tradition for many South Sudanese men to pay large sums – known as “bride price” – to the families of young ...

At the risk of being ostracised by my Kikuyu people, I just have to say that the paying of bride price is a primitive and absurd tradition that needs to die. There, I said it: ruracios are stupid ...

A man named Muhammed stormed his would-be in-laws' home and demanded back his bride price after discovering his fiancée was ...

Poor young women in Indonesian villages are becoming temporary wives for male tourists in exchange for a bride price leading to online condemnation of the practice. Puncak, in the country’s ...