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- Lobolo or lobola in Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Silozi, Shona and northern and southern Ndebele (mahadi in Sesotho, mahari in Swahili, magadi in Sepedi and Setswana...
- 1159/000151894. PMID 14277139. Messeri E. (1967): "Variabilità morfologica del lobolo auricolare in Sardegna". Atti Soc. Peloritana, Sc. Fis. mat. nat., 13 (1/2):...
- within a community. A lobolo is a bride price where the groom's parents provide a sum of money as demanded by tradition. Lobolo is a traditional practice...
- a language fundi. lobola, meaning bride price, from (and referring to) lobolo of the Nguni languages mahem, the grey crowned crane, known in Latin as...
- phrases like bride-pricing, dowry, bride-wealth, and some indigenous words: "lobolo", "mala", "bogadi", and "chiko" all make up different codes of bride purchases...
- of the girls marry before 18. The practice of bride price, known also as lobolo, is common in Malawi, and plays a major role in forced marriage. Wife inheritance...
- leading to maternal death. In Botswana, many families still follow the lobolo custom where men pay a woman's family in order to take her as a bride. This...
- engaged and married a year after. They planned their traditional marriage lobolo after their wedding. Atandwa is the son of John Kani and Mandi Kani. Fikile...
- amount can vary from a token to a great sum, real estate and other values. Lobolo (or Lobola, sometimes also known as Roora) is the same tradition in most...
- marriage) is linked to parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania (also see Lobolo). A study in 2002 estimated that at least one in five women in the world...