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Culture

Bride Price Practice is Enslaving Women in Ghana

July 29, 2019

Marriage is an institution common to all cultures. Very often it’s accompanied by transfers – in most cases in the form of payments – between the families of the groom and the bride.

These payments can be categorized into two: …

Overloaded and underpaid – women and the role they play in feeding urban South Africa

Robyn Bowden

October 15, 2018

Food insecurity is one of the most persistent challenges facing humanity. Interventions that seek to address it tend to focus on rural food insecurity and increasing food production. However, with the rapid rate of urbanisation in the Global South, urban …