Know The Dagaaba People, Their Marriage Customs

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SARPONG 9 years ago

Is that all about Dagaaba people marriage customs? It is an abomination in almost every culture for a married woman to sleep with another man except in few cultures where polyandry is practiced so this abomination is Dagbaani ...
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Is that all about Dagaaba people marriage customs? It is an abomination in almost every culture for a married woman to sleep with another man except in few cultures where polyandry is practiced so this abomination is Dagbaani culture is not unique. Most Dagbaanis are Catholics and there seem to be a culture practice amongst Dagbaanis that is in conflict with Catholic practice.

What I was looking for the Writer to tell his readers about is how Alba Bagbin, who is a Dagbaani slept with a minor sister of his wife, made her pregnant and became his wife. Is that a Dagbaani culture that you can take your sister in law as a wife too?
Pat 9 years ago

dabgbaanis are a tribe found in the northern region, dagaabas are a tribe foundin the upper west region.

dabgbaanis are a tribe found in the northern region, dagaabas are a tribe foundin the upper west region.
SARPONG 9 years ago

Pat, if you read my first sentence, you would have realised that , I said Dagabaas and sorry for the mixed up.

The question I asked could have informed you that, I was talking about dagabaas since Alba Bagbin is from Upper ...
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Pat, if you read my first sentence, you would have realised that , I said Dagabaas and sorry for the mixed up.

The question I asked could have informed you that, I was talking about dagabaas since Alba Bagbin is from Upper West and a Dagarti.
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago

Dagarti is a tribe in Upper West and I think an individual Dagarti is referred to as Dagaaaba, I stand to be corrected though. By the way most of our cultural practices(just as the various religious doctrines) are outmoded, p ...
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Dagarti is a tribe in Upper West and I think an individual Dagarti is referred to as Dagaaaba, I stand to be corrected though. By the way most of our cultural practices(just as the various religious doctrines) are outmoded, primitive, unrealistic and too superstitious and, therefore, need total overhaul. We need to refine or recycle them to keep abreast with the realities of the civilized world. I nearly puked when I got to the point where a Dagaaba wife needs the permission of her husband before a lawful healthcare providers can subjected her to any form of physical examination even if physical examination even if the woman suffers a life threatening ailment. How on earth can the survival of a woman be in the hands some foolish and jealous husband? Anyways my best Ghanaian friend is a gynecologist par excellence but have vowed my wife can see any doctor in this world but not Dr. Afrifa. Can you imagine haven a close friend of yours you always share a drink with at a joint looking inside " them thing" of your wife in the name of physical examination? Not easy huh?
Boozu 9 years ago

I can't stop laughing. Looking into your wife them things. Waooo then your wife should not fall sick

I can't stop laughing. Looking into your wife them things. Waooo then your wife should not fall sick
Job 7 years ago

I believe Mr f did not get it, the sick lady will not wait until she is granted permission to go to the Hospital. Once she informs the Husband she is for the Hospital it is granted that any examination done on her without cu ...
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I believe Mr f did not get it, the sick lady will not wait until she is granted permission to go to the Hospital. Once she informs the Husband she is for the Hospital it is granted that any examination done on her without customary implications.
Boozu 9 years ago

Bagbin is a sick dagartiman. What he did and calling it intusuo is madness.

Bagbin is a sick dagartiman. What he did and calling it intusuo is madness.
DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 years ago

Bro. Sarpong.
What about Jacob's marriage to two sisters, and the wives' housemaids bunked by the patriarchs?

Bro. Sarpong.
What about Jacob's marriage to two sisters, and the wives' housemaids bunked by the patriarchs?
SARPONG 9 years ago

Dr SAS, for somebody who if I am not mistaking has no use for christianity or don't believe in Christianity or religion, your knowledge of the Bible is very impressive.

Now to your question about Jacobs marriage to two sis ...
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Dr SAS, for somebody who if I am not mistaking has no use for christianity or don't believe in Christianity or religion, your knowledge of the Bible is very impressive.

Now to your question about Jacobs marriage to two sisters, I bet that happened or the occurrence is recounted in the old testament part of the Bible like David putting the commander of his forces infront of the battle to get him killed so that he could take his wife as a wife of his own.

The Bible teaches us Christians that,the new testament came to rectify all the bad things that happened in the old testament.

My point is that, the fact that some people did it in the old testament does not make it right to do it now.

Hope the new year has been kind to you so far.
DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 years ago

The new year has been very kind.....
I read the whole Bible at the age of sixteen, the Quran at twenty-three, The Book of the Mormons at twenty-five and the Baghavad Gita at twenty nine. After all these readings, I concluded ...
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The new year has been very kind.....
I read the whole Bible at the age of sixteen, the Quran at twenty-three, The Book of the Mormons at twenty-five and the Baghavad Gita at twenty nine. After all these readings, I concluded that established religion is trash. And I have chosen to do the most good in my life. That now is my religion.
The problem with your answer is that Christians disavow the old Testament whenever something undesirable comes out of it, but run right back to it whenever something therein benefit them. For example this whole fallacy of tithes....
The point I am making with my first post is that a people's culture must be off the radar of criticism because cultures might be mutually spooky. For example, among the Akans, a person can actually inherit his brother or uncle's wife together with his property. That might sound quite reprehensible to others. So we can only be respectful of others' culture no matter how strange.
Yiri 7 years ago

Dagaaba/Dagaare pls, not Dagbanli.

Dagaaba/Dagaare pls, not Dagbanli.
Job 7 years ago

Hon Bagbin is a Dagao not Dagbaani.
Dagbaani is a language spoken by Dagombas.

Hon Bagbin is a Dagao not Dagbaani.
Dagbaani is a language spoken by Dagombas.
Akwele 9 years ago

What happens to a dagaaba male adulterer?

What happens to a dagaaba male adulterer?
SARPONG 9 years ago

Good question, Akwele.

Good question, Akwele.
Akwele 9 years ago

Are you taking us back to the middle ages?

Are you taking us back to the middle ages?
Doobia 9 years ago

Thanks for this information. I am looking forward to a day when a king in Dagbon Will bring back all Gbewaa ethnic groups under one umbrella. Wala, Namprugu, Dagaaba, Nanumba are all Dagombas

Thanks for this information. I am looking forward to a day when a king in Dagbon Will bring back all Gbewaa ethnic groups under one umbrella. Wala, Namprugu, Dagaaba, Nanumba are all Dagombas
Mr Roy 9 years ago

A very nice piece of valuable information.some readers have forgotten the highly patriarchal hegemony that exist amongst the dagaabas. Additionally, the cause of the calamities on the adulterous woman,it's believed originates ...
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A very nice piece of valuable information.some readers have forgotten the highly patriarchal hegemony that exist amongst the dagaabas. Additionally, the cause of the calamities on the adulterous woman,it's believed originates from the secret ceremony done with part of the diary that confers the woman only to his husband. Some modern woman are also believed to have found an antidote to this important ceremony to neutralize the effect. Is it true?
Yelewere Boniface 9 years ago

Merci,fu monna ziem

Merci,fu monna ziem
Boozu 9 years ago

Some one should investigate this writer I suspect some man is bunking his wife big time. He just can't confront the man and choose to put out this rubbish, inaccurate, non factual peace hoping the man will and live his wife a ...
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Some one should investigate this writer I suspect some man is bunking his wife big time. He just can't confront the man and choose to put out this rubbish, inaccurate, non factual peace hoping the man will and live his wife alone.
Boozu 9 years ago

If someone is bunking your wife seriously and you can not stop or do anything about it, writer an article he might read it get scared and live your wife alone. Ziem knows that all the facts he has put out are no where near th ...
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If someone is bunking your wife seriously and you can not stop or do anything about it, writer an article he might read it get scared and live your wife alone. Ziem knows that all the facts he has put out are no where near the truth. Ndor I am a dagarti borne and bread from Guo and have never heard that a woman dying must seek consent of the husband before medically examined. Aba ta magre zeri
SARPONG 9 years ago

Mr Boozu, is it true dagartis are allowed to marry their sisters in law forcefully as Bagbin did and if not whydo you people continue to vote forthat child rapist?

Mr Boozu, is it true dagartis are allowed to marry their sisters in law forcefully as Bagbin did and if not whydo you people continue to vote forthat child rapist?
Seidu Ali 9 years ago

Sir Sarpong what Bagbin did was dispicable and a disgrace to dagartiland. No dagarti man is allow to marry two sisters. As to why we continue voting for that goat, is question of enlightenment. Most of our people of voting ag ...
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Sir Sarpong what Bagbin did was dispicable and a disgrace to dagartiland. No dagarti man is allow to marry two sisters. As to why we continue voting for that goat, is question of enlightenment. Most of our people of voting age are illitrate and with some token of gifts to the elders, nobody defies them. Is a pity.
DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 years ago

The Dagaaba culture enumerated here is, to a very large extent, no different from that pertaining in many African societies. Among Akans for example, it is considered incestuous for people of the same clan to inter-marry..... ...
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The Dagaaba culture enumerated here is, to a very large extent, no different from that pertaining in many African societies. Among Akans for example, it is considered incestuous for people of the same clan to inter-marry...... So here, the culture just simply affirms the commonality of our origins and perceptions. Of importance is its oppressive consequences for women in general. There should be more equality and justice in the law for both women and men that go against their marriage vows.
But of personal interest to me is how to reclaim my Dagarti wife pledged to me by her family in 1975. In 1970, my mother's tenant named her child after her. Thereafter, my mother performed a certain ceremony to the child's parents that, in a sense, committed the child to be my wife in the future. In 1988,she became pregnant by another man. In 2015, I still feel cheated and want to fulfill my mother's dream of marrying that woman.
What relief is available to me under the Dagaaba cultural law?
Mensah 9 years ago

This writer should come back again with this nonsense. What about a married man who sleeps about any woman his eyes can see? What is his punishment in your culture, and why is it only women who society believe should be punis ...
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This writer should come back again with this nonsense. What about a married man who sleeps about any woman his eyes can see? What is his punishment in your culture, and why is it only women who society believe should be punished for transgressions in marriage. We have people from this culture currently managing Ghana's affairs, and no wonder Ghana is in total mess. This is simply Islamic practices that has been co-opted as a culture for this tribe
ishak 8 years ago

Nice job but keep researching to help reduce ignorance of many young people

Nice job but keep researching to help reduce ignorance of many young people
Karen 7 years ago

What about the men that cheat? Or is it ok to have more than one wife?

What about the men that cheat? Or is it ok to have more than one wife?
Job 7 years ago

I stand to be corrected, I think polygamy is practised by the Ghanaian but not poliyandry.
Also notable is one Christian ,one wife

I stand to be corrected, I think polygamy is practised by the Ghanaian but not poliyandry.
Also notable is one Christian ,one wife
Alfred Kobiri 7 years ago

A GOOD AND VERY EDUCATIVE NARRATIVE

A GOOD AND VERY EDUCATIVE NARRATIVE
Job 7 years ago

Every human being is born into a culture but if someone feels this is nonsense, he can leave the Dagaabas alone.

Every human being is born into a culture but if someone feels this is nonsense, he can leave the Dagaabas alone.

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