Dowry Fuels Domestic Violence in Uganda

Rose Akurut's parents were thrilled when the Ugandan farmer's daughter became engaged to a man from a village far from her own. But the dowry she would bring -- cows, goats and cash -- soured the marriage and brought dark clouds over the partnership, a story repeated by many others in Uganda. "I was very, very happy. Now I'd also benefit, the cows would come," said her mother Anna Amiti, 50, referring to the bride price or dowry, enshrined in Ugandan ...