A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment a Nigerian lady shared how her marriage crashed and bride ...

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A lady said her parents refused to attend her wedding because her husband did not pay bride price. According to her, only a ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - It once cost several head of cattle for a South African man to set himself up with a new wife, but these days many pay in cash, and inflation -- or abuse -- can be a problem.

If you grew up in the West, you might have thought that exchanges of money between families when their children got married was a practice that ended at least centuries ago. That practice is still a ...

Mai Neng Moua is certain that many of the people in her life won’t like her new memoir, “The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story” (Minnesota Historical Society Press). That’s a tough starting place for ...

Niam, the Hmong mother who comes to vivid life in Mai Neng Moua's new memoir, is an unlikely poster child for girl power. As a young woman in Laos, she broke the rules, running away with a suitor even ...

The family of the founder of Peace of Jerusalem Revival Ministry, Prophetess Lilian Chibuzor Abua, has said that the four children she had for her ex-husband, Prophet Ayodeji Obayan, would not bear ...

When a woman seeks to divorce her husband or a man divorces his wife under Igbo custom, the woman has to go through certain rituals called Izuchi’ahia Nwanyi. Nigeria operates what is known as a ...

The semantic domain of "carrying" is culturally salient in the Oceanic language, Longgu. Like many Austronesian languages, Longgu has about a dozen lexically specific verbs that refer to modes of ...

'The Bride Price' is taking over the Nigerian box office in two weeks. After spending just two weeks in cinemas, the indigenous film is already ruling with ₦13 million. Still, data from the Cinema ...