Orango Island
Feb 3 2007, Pooja

Like any other rural vicinity in Africa, Orango Island, in Guinea-Bissau, too has their conventional rituals, which has long been female dominated. Yes, this so called under privileged region has ‘matriarchal’ form of marriage ceremony.

A girl...

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