Causes and motives of early marriage in the Gambia and Tanzania : is new legislation enough?
Both The Gambia and Tanzania have high rates of under-18 marriage for girls
and both also raised the legal age of marriage for girls to 18 in 2016. This
ethnographic study of the urban Muslim poor in Tanzania and The Gambia
explores the causes behind and meanings of early marriage in these countries
and discusses the likelihood of the recent legislative changes to have effect on
actual practice among the poor in the towns and cities of these countries.
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University of JyväskyläISBN
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