bride price
Noun
Meaning
money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
He said the law does not seek to abolish lobola since culturally it solidified bonds between families but said bride price could not be used as a precondition to solemnize marriage.
Gwanda — A family here lost over R50 000 which was part of lobola they received after four masked armed robbers pounced on them a day after the payment of the bride price.
Odi who was an indigene of Umueje Obinze, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, was allegedly quarrelling with Iwu on how to share the bride price of their sister who got married on Sunday, November 29.
In anthropological literature, bride price has often been explained as payment made to compensate the bride's family for the loss of her labor and fertility.