Sentence examples for bride wealth from inspiring English sources
noun
Synonym of bride price
Some who have not been circumcised leave the family without us getting the bride wealth".
A bride's parents paid a dowry, and the groom's parents paid a larger sum, known as "bride wealth".
They consider bride wealth [the property that the groom gives the bride], and we [girls] are sold.
Eight years ago he also paid lobolo (bride wealth), the first step towards a traditional marriage, to the family of Sebentile Dlamini, a Swazi princess.
Many social practices, such as uneven distribution of power in marital relations, polygamy, acceptance of male promiscuity, power of extended family over married couples, restriction of women's mobility, and the almost universal prevalence of bride wealth, explain the persistence of male superiority and widespread violence against women in Nigerian culture.
The abducted girls described these experiences as 'sexual slavery' because there was no love, no consent and no bride wealth paid to their parents [ 22].
The process of marrying usually involves asking the young woman's consent, introducing the woman to the man's family and the same for the man to the woman's family, testing the bride's character, checking the woman's family background, and paying the brides' wealth.
"So my family really got nothing for bride-wealth, and they feel bad about me and perhaps wish me to die".
Instead boyfriends and girlfriends engaged in reciprocal gift giving [ 26], and men constructed images of masculine success from their ability to save money for ilobola (bride-wealth), build a rural homestead, and continue their bloodline through children [ 14].
The bride's wealth payment among Igbo speakers may promote violence against women, since it symbolizes "loss of rights" by the bride and "transfer of rights" to the groom.
This may be due to the Igbo tradition of payment of expensive bride's wealth by the husband's family to the wife's, which supports the husband's dominance and reflects a traditional gender hierarchy in which men are considered superior to women.
