Dokument #1072754
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Information on Asiwa other than
that provided in Response to Information Request GHA19263.E of 20
December 1994 could not be found among the sources currently
available to the DIRB. However, according to Christine Oppong,
author of Middle Class African Marriage in Ghana:
The essential element of the marriage
contract is the gift of drinks (tiri nsa) by the head of
the groom's lineage to the head of the bride's lineage. This is
accompanied by the handing over of small gifts to close kin, father
and matrikin as well as a gift to the bride herself (1981, 30).
The author further states that a divorce is
not effective until the tiri nsa has been repaid and that
a divorced wife "is not at liberty to remarry until this bill of
expenses and the head money are repaid" (ibid., 31). For
additional information on this topic, please consult the atttached
document.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
Oppong, Christine. 1981. Middle
Class African Marriage: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil
Servants. London: George Allen & Unwin.
Attachment
Oppong, Christine. 1981. Middle
Class African Marriage: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil
Servants. London: George Allen & Unwin, pp. 28-51.