ABSTRACT For centuries, a woman marrying another woman has globally been practiced. This study has focused on woman to woman marriage among the Akamba Christian of Kangundo district, Machakos County. This form of marriage is referred to as Iweto marriage, (plural Maweto). It is observed that Iweto marriage is contrary to Christian teaching where marriage is between man and woman thus exclusively monogamous. The purpose of the study was to establish the factors behind the persistence of the I...
REPORT SUMMARY Zujung is located in the Tamale South Constituency and under the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly. It is located in the outskirts and southern part of the Metropolis and shares boundaries with Builpiela to the North-West and Lamashegu to the East. Recently, the incidence of early marriage has been very high in Ghana. The project therefore, was designed to explore the effects of child marriage on the young people and the Zujung community at large and finding ways to reducing the in...
Zujung is located in the Tamale South Constituency and under the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly. It is located in the outskirts and southern part of the Metropolis and shares boundaries with Builpiela to the North-West and Lamashegu to the East. Recently, the incidence of early marriage has been very high in Ghana. The project therefore, was designed to explore the effects of child marriage on the young people and the Zujung community at large and finding ways to reducing the incidence of child...
ABSTRACT This section explains the research findings on Assessing of the impact of child marriage on girl child education. Objectives of the study To measure the impact of child marriage on drop out, literacy and education attainment To briefly adopt some of the policies that could be adopted in order to reduce child marriage To establish the effects of girl child marriage on girl child education In despite of all attention drawn to child marriage across the world, there is a lack of improvem...
ABSTRACT The study was undertaken in the Gyidim community of the Agogo sub-district of the Ashanti-Akim North district of the Ashanti region. The overall objective of the study was to acquire empirical data aimed at understanding the impact of HIV/AIDS on reproductive decision-making for programme strategizing and policy decisions. The Gyidim community is largely governed by their strong religious beliefs that favour, large family 'size, promote polygynous marriages and strongly oppose contra...
Abstract The main aim of this study was to analyse VaRemba Komba songs in Mahohoma village in Mberengwa. The qualitative study employed different data collection instruments like interviews and observation to gather much needed data in the compilation of this research. Information gathered using the mentioned data collection tools yielded the success of this research where data was analysed and presented accordingly. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and these were directed to the Kom...
ABSRACT This paper explores the issue of early marriage in Kenya. It shed light specifically on reason behind its perceptions, its harmful consequences, a barrier to education band enjoyment of girls’ human rights and how it further threatens the development of the county. The finding from an extensive reading of materials related to early marriage suggest that early marriage is due to various factors including among others. The search for economic survival, protection of young girls, peer ...
ABSTRACT The study explored Maasai religio-cultural beliefs, the place of marriage in Maasai cultural and religious beliefs, to what extent Maasai cultural and religious beliefs are related to and manifested in Maasai marriage and the changes affecting Maasai marriage with regard to the religio-cultural themes. This research was guided by a thematic approach to the study of African religio-cultural knowledge and specifically by analysing the topic through the matrix of fifteen religio-cultura...
TABlE Of CONTENTS DECLARATION .......................................................................................................... i APPROVAL ................................................................................................................ ii DEDICATION ........................................................................................................... iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .................................................................................................
ABSTRACT The study investigated FGM and girl child education in Bukwo District, Eastern Uganda. The main reason of the study was. to establish the effect of FGM on Girl child education and how it can be eliminated to improve the enrollment of the girl child in schools. The study mainly targeted those wl~o are mutilated.. Questionnaires (self administrated questionnaires); in, depth interview methods were used to get the required information in which 100 respondents were interviewed in the who...
A property owned by Individuals either before or during the Marriage doesn’t always become joint properties, these all depends on the reasons of the party purchasing the property. If such property is one purchased before the marriage and the purchaser did not bring it to the knowledge of the wife or husband, or if its known to such spouse, was never used for any family purposes, such property remains a personal property of the spouse who had purchased it. Where the property was purchased du...
ABSTRACT The Kwawus are from the Eastern Region of Ghana. They are traditionally known to be people with good business acumen which has also its historical basis. They are also known for protecting and maintaining their culture wherever they migrated to, and marriage and mate selection is one of them. It is expected that as people migrate to urban centres most of their traditional lifestyles change as a result of their exposure to people from different cultural and ethnic background. However,...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATION ............................................................................................................................ iiAPPROVAL .................................................................................................................................. iiiDEDICATION ............................................................................................................................... ivACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................
ABSTRACT Background There is little interest in the sexual lives of PLWPD. It is usually assumed that PLWPD have little or no desire to engage in sexual intimacy, marriage or procreation. Little attention is paid to these aspects of the lives of PLWPD. PLWPD are often thought of as incapable of enjoying the same rights as people without physical disability and thus discouraged from pursuing marriage, sexual intimacy and childbearing. This study explored perceptions about marriage of people li...
This study explores the issue of infidelity as escapism in the society. Mostly, the society entirely blames people who engage in relationship with different partners and mark them as evil not even considering what may have caused the suppose offenders to engage in the infidelity act, naturally leading the researcher to ask the following questions: what are the issues of infidelity in the society? What are some of the possible causes of infidelity in the society? This study draws data fro...