Shemgelena(ሽምግልና)
Shemgelena(ሽምግልና) is a culture that requires the man to send elderly people or people who are respected to the “bride-to-be’s” house. Those elderly people will go to the “bride-to-be’s” family and ask her family for their approval of the marriage. What the “bride-to-be’s” family demands is completely one-sided and puts pressure on the man. How … Read more