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The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta

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Name: Buchi Emecheta
Birth Date: 21 July 1944

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Biography of Buchi Emecheta
3637 words, approx. 12.1 pages
Buchi Emecheta is to date the most important female African writer. The extent of her output and the centrality of her subject matter-the role of women in present-day Africa-have put her in this position. In her fiction she shows courage in challenging t...
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Biography of (Florence) (Onye) Buchi Emecheta
3179 words, approx. 10.6 pages
Buchi Emecheta is to date the most important female African writer. The extent of her output and the centrality of her subject matter--the role of women in present-day Africa--have put her in this position. In her fiction she shows courage in challenging...


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The Bride Price Information
635 words, approx. 2 pages
The Bride Price is a 1976 novel (first published in the UK by Allison & Busby and in the USA by George Braziller) by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It concerns, in part the problems of women in post-colonial...


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Women's Feature Service
Zimbabwe: Bride Price and Violence
04/18/2005: 1,057 words, approx. 4 pages
Harare, (WFS) - In Zimbabwe, the practice of bride price (lobola) is steeped in tradition. On an apparent level, the man makes payments to the woman's family as part of the marriage process. But in reality, say critics, lobola condemns women to marital enslavement...
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WIN News
UGANDA: THE FACTS ABOUT THE TRADITION OF BRIDE PRICE.(Brief Article)
01/01/2000: 830 words, approx. 3 pages
FROM 'GENDER ALERT NEWS', UGANDA GENDER RESOURCE CENTRE P.O. Box 9933, Kampala, UGANDA "In Uganda, we have quite a number of marriages which are constitutionally accepted and it is only in a customary marriage where all cultural obligations which pertain to...
 


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