However, taking measures to reduce, if not altogether abolish, "bride price" would help single men more than vocational ...

According to a survey by Wuhan University, the national average bride price has reached approximately 140,000 yuan (approx.

According toZola.com, the average wedding costs about $33,000. Granted, that price can fluctuate either way, depending on ...

"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 ...

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 video making the rounds has captured a Nigerian bride's excitement as she tied the knot with her 'odogwu' who paid in full.

The draft legislation would remove a longstanding restriction to boost the number of marriages, which have been trending ...

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 ...

That hallowed tribal custom, the bride price, is coming under fire. Africa’s young bachelors, caught between higher education and even higher inflation, are growing increasingly unhappy at the ...

The bride also noted that her wedding venue wouldn ... “I am sure they will be happy to oblige her at $80 a bottle. At that price I am sure her friends will be satisfied, and your step mom ...

"My sister thrifted the dress for $35 at American Rag about eight years ago," Emma Lev, an LA-based actor, told Newsweek.

“The Bride Price” follows the story of a barely educated spare parts dealer who cuts off his wife’s family from their lives after he was made to pay through his nose for her.