... not pay the required dowry and so never married Mapfumo’s mother. Cecil John Rhodes Zimbabwe African Christianity Thomas Mapfumo mbira ...

... that beneath its relative political stability, the Venetian regime witnessed changes that affected relations between families. The principal dynamic that fueled those changes was marriage, especially dowries, which altered property profiles of the families of both brides and grooms. Amplifying that structural...

... biological father could not pay the required dowry and so never married Mapfumo’s mother. Cecil John Rhodes Zimbabwe African Christianity Thomas Mapfumo mbira In this chapter, Mapfumo moves to the capital city—then Salisbury, now Harare—to join the family of his mother, step-father, and step...

... regime witnessed changes that affected relations between families. The principal dynamic that fueled those changes was marriage, especially dowries, which altered property profiles of the families of both brides and grooms. Amplifying that structural dynamic of change was the unpredictable effect...