''The Girls of Akure are Now too Costly'': Gender, Bridewealth and Legal Debates over Marriage in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria

''The Girls of Akure are Now too Costly'': Gender, Bridewealth and Legal Debates over Marriage in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria

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Academic Unit

College of Arts and Sciences

Publication Date

2019

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This study demonstrates how the junior men created an important status for themselves as they negotiated the authority of the senior men (chiefs and fathers) who facilitated marriage relations and served as cultural guardians. I then link this struggle to the larger legal debates on marriage. As young men stated their perspectives on marriage payments, they continuously unveiled a number of sociocultural and economic matters that connect intensely to the broader social change under British colonialism.

Journal Title

Gender and Social Encounters; Experiences from Africa

Volume

9

Beginning Page Number

6

Last Page Number

29

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00004402

''The Girls of Akure are Now too Costly'': Gender, Bridewealth and Legal Debates over Marriage in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria

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