Topic: child marriage

“I protected myself but I knew there are girls out there who are facing the same problem in lockdown. I knew we needed to...

There has been an alarming increase in the number of dowry deaths in the past few years. In 2015, 7,634 cases were reported and from about 19 per day in 2001 to 21 per day in 2016 are reported cases of dowry death by NCB data.

And yet here in the region of Shinyanga, the practice of kupura is validated by the oft-recited motto of Sukuma men: alcohol, meat and vagina. kupura -a single word is used to encapsulate them all.