Mai Neng Moua is certain that many of the people in her life won’t like her new memoir, “The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story” (Minnesota Historical Society Press). That’s a tough starting place for ...

Florence Musidika was a primary school teacher in an unhappy and violent marriage. In 2002 she asked her husband for a divorce. In response, as she bent over one morning to light a fire to make ...

Will Benjamin be able to pay the bride price that Akinyi’s family is asking for? Pic credit: TLC Benjamin made his way to Kenya to meet Akinyi, the woman that he wants to marry. The problem is, if ...

After the latest episode of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 days, Benjamin is defending himself. Pic credit: TLC On the latest episode of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days, Benjamin made a major flub ...

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If you grew up in the West, you might have thought that exchanges of money between families when their children got married was a practice that ended at least centuries ago. That practice is still a ...

The problem with Kenyan fathers is that they insist on outrageous bride prices, yet their daughters, have had their “legs broken” by someone else. The rule of the thumb seems to be that the father ...

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This is the second article in a series on bride prices. Part one, on how the practice varies by region, can be found here. Bai, a doctor who runs a clinic in a largely rural county in northwestern ...