Word: husbandless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grounds that to most Africans the bride price is the most tangible token of a marriage and that uncircumcised girls under present circumstances find it almost impossible to get anyone within their own tribes to marry them. "Hasty action," said one delegate, "will only create new problems-problems of husbandless women roaming the streets...