Bravo Acholi leaders on lowering bride price
Friday April 16 2021
A dance troupe performs the Acholi Otole war dance during a cultural festival in Gulu Municipality in 2018. Such dances often accompany the Acholi traditional marriages. PHOTO/FILE/COURTESY/URN
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Their son, Okot P’Bitek ,would have raised his hat to this, since he eloquently wrote about the economic strain of bride price on young couples wishing to marry, in his novel White Teeth.
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I refer to the article about the Acholi by-law on bride price by Polycap Kalokwera, in Daily Monitor of April 14.
Acholi cultural leaders are to be applauded for passing a by-law on bride price limiting it to not more than Shs5m.
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