{"id":20561,"date":"2010-06-11T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=20561"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:40:28","slug":"akele-marriage-by-jean-kedine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2010\/06\/akele-marriage-by-jean-kedine\/","title":{"rendered":"Akele marriage, by Jean K\u00e9dine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To start off the summer, Sorosoro kicks off a whole <strong>new series of videos<\/strong> filmed a year ago in the Gabonese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/akele\">Akele<\/a> community, devoted to the theme of <strong>marriage<\/strong> and its various <strong>side issues<\/strong>: footage raising questions as diverse as the choice of partners, proposal procedures, cost of dowry, rules regarding polygamy, adultery or widowhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These interviews bear a few surprises, at least for the most Western-minded of us. But basically what we\u2019ll see is that there\u2019s a <strong>politico-economic aspect<\/strong> to marriage in the Akele community, as in most African communities: marriages structure society, and involve property transfer. Which incidentally reminds that marriages arranged in the same perspectives in remote parts of Western Europe do not necessarily belong to a very distant past\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Equally perceptible in the interviews, the <strong>young generations<\/strong>, as always, tend to wish for different lifestyles than their parents and grandparents. Africa is also undergoing the big tradition shake-up\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first of this series on marriage shines the light on the different <strong>changes in matrimonial customs of the contemporary Akele community<\/strong>, especially in regards to the choice of the partner who, for a long time, was designated by the elders (either the parents or grandparents). Youngsters nowadays refuse to follow the traditional standards, and tend to object to the idea of a partner they have not chosen themselves. Hence the obvious example of transgenerational marriage\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jean K\u00e9dine<\/strong> tells us about all these changes in the following interview.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"610\" height=\"370\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GZdSNihzTNw?version=3&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GZdSNihzTNw?version=3&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist<\/span>: Jean-Marie Hombert<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Camera and sound<\/span>:  Luc-Henri Fage<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Translation<\/span>: Hugues Awanhet<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span> : Caroline Laurent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start off the summer, Sorosoro kicks off a whole new series of videos filmed a year ago in the Gabonese Akele community, devoted to the theme of marriage and its various side issues: footage raising questions as diverse as the choice of partners, proposal procedures, cost of dowry, rules regarding polygamy, adultery or widowhood. 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