masukuma wrote:1.2m is nothing, sometimes you get a figure that looks like a telephone number 2547..... unacheza. doing it by the book is not cheap!! but most of the time you don't have to pay it all at once - its staggered. yangu has like 700k to go!
Dowry should be symbolic rather tham materialistic. No one can put a value on the life of an individual. If today someone offered you shillings Ten Million (10,000,000/=) to take the life of your child, you will not accept or even contemplate.
Some may argue that their daughter is educated (like the airport above) but well I can also claim my son is educated too and it will be to their common benefit not my son alone.
The bride price should be reasonable and should not be a strain on the newly wed couple.
"Never regret, if its good, its wonderful. If its bad, its experience."