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Polygamous unions are currently recognized under customary law throughout Nigeria, but lack numerous benefits in a Nigerian civil marriage. While civil marriage in Nigeria is monogamous, a dozen states have implanted Sharia into their legal systems and thus are exempt. While the implanting of Sharia was unsuccessful, numerous Sharia courts were ...
Polyandry is a marriage between a woman and multiple husbands. [2] A common expectation for African kings in African societies is for African kings to symbolically unify his kingdom and the society through partaking in polygamous marriages with wives from a broad range of clans within the society. [2] By doing so, the king reduces the chance of ...
Among the Irigwe of Northern Nigeria, women have traditionally acquired numerous spouses called "co-husbands". In August 2013, two Kenyan men entered into an agreement to marry a woman with whom they had both been having an affair. Kenyan law does not explicitly forbid polyandry, although it is not a common custom.
Customary law, one of the three legal systems in operation in Nigeria (the other two being Nigerian common law and Sharia law) allows for one man to legally marry more than one woman. Unlike those marriages recognized by Sharia, there is no limit to the number of legal wives allowed under customary law.
Two women — a married couple — sit in their compound with their children in Tarime, Tanzania. "'Nyumba ntobhu' system will lose its stronghold if men turn away from violence and start treating ...
Cameroon [2] Chad [3] Central African Republic [4] Comoros; Republic of the Congo [5] Djibouti [6] Egypt [7] Eswatini [8] Gabon: [9] Both men and women can join in polygamous marriage with the other gender under Gabonese law. In practice, the right to multiple spouses is reserved for men only.
In the Church—the City of God—marriage is a sacrament and may not and cannot be dissolved as long as the spouses live: "But a marriage once for all entered upon in the City of our God, where, even from the first union of the two, the man and the woman, marriage bears a certain sacramental character, can in no way be dissolved but by the ...
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