20 goats and three Carmel as Dowry in Kenya



This is a heartbreak, most cruel, but it is a tradition in Kenya where girls at the very young age are sold into marriage for a dowry in livestock as part of the traditional marriage rights.

This girls are dressed in tribal jewellery as they are being traded away by their parents for 20 goats, three Carmel and ten Cows, most of which are members of the Pokot tribe.

Despite the Kenyan Law that forbids early marriage, this girls as old as fourteen of age are being taking into marriage by force. During this ceremony of forced marriage, the girls will be singing and stay standing from afternoon, through the night and the morning after.

These people of Pokot are also know to practice female genital mutilation, but these is carried out at a much younger age than the forced marriage   


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