The Birthday of my life has come

A BIRTHDAY
Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a daïs of silk and [...]

Bride Price

Zimbabwe families debate ‘lobola’ [bride price] tradition

Posted on November 28, 2009

http://www.coastweek.com/xin271109-06.htm

“People marry to build relationships, not to beat each other” – Men’s rights group director Leo Wamwanduka

HARARE  — Zimbabwe has launched nationwide debates on the issue of lobola (bride price) to get people’s views on the meaning of lobola and its link with domestic violence, [...]