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Same-sex Marriage In Africa Is Not New, Women Have Been Marrying Themselves by nspodcast1: 7:54am On Aug 08, 2016
Some of the women of Tanzania’s Kurya tribe engage in same-sex marriages, and they do this under a local tradition called nyumba ntobhu (house of women).

According to a Marie Claire piece, the tradition allows older women of the tribe to continue reading here http://nostringsng.com/women-africa-marrying-local-tradition/

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