African societies have creatively adapted marriage and kinship to meet economic and social needs. More than a marriage practice, woman-marriage has been an assertion of female agency, an economic ...

The third-placed play, The Commodity, tells the story of a man who is looking for the best financial deal he can get for his daughter's hand in marriage. Arranged marriages are common in Africa, and ...

The list goes on. An overwhelming amount of the money being funneled like a river into Africa from Western governments and allied NGOs concerning issues of family, marriage, and human sexuality is ...

Sierra Leone has one of the highest child marriage rates in Africa, with 30 percent of girls married before turning 18, according to the 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Surveys.

Gay marriage was legalized by the federal government ... Vice President Kamala Harris thanked leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for their support this week. TNS Leaders of the ...

By Amelia Nierenberg The president of the small West African country of Sierra Leone signed a law on Tuesday that banned marriage for children age 18 and younger and would impose steep fines on ...

The pope’s unprecedented approval of same-sex marriage has sent shockwaves across Africa, leaving many Africans confused and with mixed emotions, triggering widespread backlash throughout Africa.

That's one of the startling figures contained in a 2021 UNICEF report about child marriage. Africa's sub-Saharan region is home to nine of the ten countries with the highest rates of child ...

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has fundamentally changed the country’s marriage law, making it fairer to people who are married “out of community of property” when their marriages end.