Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat ...

An ancient traditional space used to prepare teenagers for marriage is being revived, but with a modern twist.

Governments and religious institutions regulate marriage. Such regulations are heavily laden with specific moral ideas and cultural taboos. There are heated debates around what counts as “proper” ...

In rural Zimbabwe, girls are reviving the traditional Nhanga practice to address child marriage, teen pregnancy, and gender ...

Child marriage rates soar to above 40% in central and West Africa, with Niger, at 76%, the highest globally, according to ...

Do you know that about 12 million girls experience child marriage every year, and Africa is said to have one of the highest numbers of child marriages? This data is from the United Nations Population ...

Historically, for example, Commonwealth countries inherited the marital rape exemption from England. This established that ...

Anthony Idowu Ajayi is affiliated with the African Population and Health Research Center. Articles 2 and 14 made specific provisions to protect the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls.

As a therapist, divorce lawyer, and divorce mediator over the past 40 years, I always find it interesting when my clients (about equally men and women) generalize about marriage and divorce from their ...

Lack of empathy pushes some marriages beyond repair. Source: Alex Green/Pexels Leo Tolstoy famously wrote, “All happy families are the same. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In my ...

Women and girls in rural Zimbabwe are reviving Nhanga, an ancient custom traditionally used to prepare girls to marriage, and ...