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Education Instead Of Early Marriage Using a bit of lateral thinking, a school in Kenya’s Rift Valley has managed to give Maasai girls an education instead of letting them be committed into an early marriage. Dowry For Education Traditionally, young girls in Kenya can be booked for marriage either through a dowry or, among members of the Samburu tribe, [...] Con Man Or Con Woman? What is the definition for a con man? How about this: A con man is a person who intentionally misleads another person, usually for personal financial gain. In India, where the bride’s family pays the groom a dowry during the wedding, con men are a having a field day duping unsuspecting brides into paying dowries [...] Refund Of Dowry Sealed The Divorce A month after 80-year old Ahmed Rahim married 14-year old Nura, the unhappy bride who claimed to have been tricked into marriage by her father, is now free thanks to a stranger who refunded the dowry money to Ahmed Rahim to secure her divorce. The Deception Ahmed Rahim thought he would do the [...] A report in the Kansas City Star caught my attention a while back. Entitled “Man charged with statutory rape in ‘marriage’ to 14-year-old girl”, the report says that 23-year old Vincent Mosby (aka Salih) apparently thought he had entered into a valid marriage contract with the girl’s guardians, notwithstanding the fact that the girl was only 14 [...] |
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