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TANZANIA-CULTURE-WOMEN-MARRIAGE
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY EPHREM RUGIRIRIZA
A picture taken on June 29, 2010 shows Weregesa Moita, 85, (L) seated in her compound with children born from a same-sex marriage to wife, Monicca Moita, 23 (unseen) at a village in Tarime, approximately 830km Northwest of commercial capital Dar es Salaam. While much of Africa outlaws same-sex unions, elderly women of a small northern Tanzania tribe, the Kuria, marry younger women to bear them children and provide domestic care for them thanks to an age-old tradition. Divorced or windowed and in their sunset years, Mkungu, as the elder women are known in the local language, seek younger women to marry, Mke-mwana, to look after their fields and cattle and bear them children with a male often selected from the elder woman's clan, the children of whose union are deemed to belong to the elder woman and take-on her family name. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA
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TARIME, TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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TONY KARUMBA |
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15 Iulie 2010 |
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3534 x 2531 (1.08 MB) |
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