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Title: | Marriage Choices among the Educated African Elite in Lagos Colony, 1880-1915 |
Author: | Mann, Kristin |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 201-228 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | values elite marriage Women's Issues History and Exploration colonialism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/218043 |
Abstract: | Two types of marriages, Yoruba and Western, were practiced by the educated elite in Lagos in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The choice of how to marry was an issue of great concern to the elite, some of whom practiced Western marriage and others Yoruba marriage, for either ideological or pragmatic reasons. Still other members of the group made both Western and Yoruba marriages, in response to their short-term needs and long-term struggles for advancement in colonial society, or because their values changed during their lives. These individuals acknowledged that they had different cultural options with respect to marriage and manipulated them in their perceived best interest. It is in fact possible to interpret changes in the educated elite's marriage choices in relation to changes in the economic, political, social, and religious climate in which its members lived. Notes, tab. |