By Patrick Luganda 27 December 2001 It is now settled. Hand in gifts to a suitor’s parents. Marry the girl. Mistreat her and she will run away. And there is no refund for your gifts. More than 60% of voters in the referendum on bride price in Tororo district last Saturday opted for a reform

By Patrick Luganda 8 January 2002 Sixty years ago Evelyn Alowo Okoth witnessed a horrendous scene that became permanently imprinted in her mind. She was 10 years of age when her father brutalised his sister for refusing to marry a man who was ready to pay several cows in bride price. “My aunt had a

By Anne Mugisa 25 July 2002 Delegates at the International Women’s Congress yesterday called for abolition of bride price, saying it perpetuated domestic violence and poverty, especially in rural areas. “The family today is turning out to be the most brutal unit and the most dangerous institution the world over, where women face violence…The issue

By Joan Mugenzi 28 January 2003 Kampala — MIFUMI village in Tororo district is no village anyone would wish to settle in. The poverty in this place bites. The few reasonable houses have old rusty iron sheets. The children in this village move about in torn clothes. Not even food can bring joy to one’s

By Alice Emasu 16 December 2003 Kampala — FLORENCE Nyayuk, 42 and Solomon Oboth, 66 tell their love story with confidence and excitement. Oboth went to jail two years ago for Nyayuk, then his new catch. Oboth, a widower with 15 children opted to wed Nyayuk, who was formerly married and divorced. But when their

Analysis By Alice Emasu 5 October 2004 Kampala — Society seems to accept domestic violence as a bedroom affair that should not even spill over to the living room, but why should a man batter his pregnant wife? To many right thinking members of society, nine months of pregnancy is a shared responsibility between husband

By Mercy Nalugo 1 December 2004 Parliament — A women rights agency has proposed that bride-price be abolished completely. The women told the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee that many young men and orphans could not afford the price, which is a requirement for marriage. The Executive Director of Mifumi Project, Ms Turner Atuki, said

16 July 2007 Lominda Afedraru — THE Mifumi Project, a women’s rights advocacy NGO based in Tororo District, has petitioned the Constitutional Court to scrap bride price. In the petition Mifumi filed together with 10 others, they argue that the practice of giving bride price, a key component in customary marriage, is unconstitutional because it

Opinion By Atuki Turner 20 December 2007 Kampala — BRIDE Price is a controversial issue and one which excites a hot debate whenever the topic is raised. Since MIFUMI began its campaign to reform this practice we have got mixed support from public figures. The church is a very conservative institution which is hardly seen