Will Benjamin be able to pay the bride price that Akinyi’s family is asking for? Pic credit: TLC Benjamin made his way to Kenya to meet Akinyi, the woman that he wants to marry. The problem is, if ...

This is the second article in a series on bride prices. Part one, on how the practice varies by region, can be found here. Bai, a doctor who runs a clinic in a largely rural county in northwestern ...

Florence Musidika was a primary school teacher in an unhappy and violent marriage. In 2002 she asked her husband for a divorce. In response, as she bent over one morning to light a fire to make ...

This paper is written in reaction to the 18 Clan Council’s decision to re-negotiate the bride price and to those who are not aware of why there is a bride price in the first place. Before I go into ...

“The Elders have spoken and my bride price is NGN630, 000. I’m a Super Premium babe na!” Knowing your worth has taken on new meaning since the launch of “Bride Price,” the app that calculates the ...

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 ...

Terrorism experts have long known that poverty is a factor in tempting young men to join radical terrorist groups, but what about bride prices? A new article in MIT Press Journal argues that many ...

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 ancient ...