Nigeria:Helping the Individual to Help Society
(WorldNews Africa)

[Guardian] There is a community in Nigeria where a ceremony holds whenever a woman has given birth to her ninth child in a marriage. The husband of the woman, by the demands of tradition, presents a cow to his in-laws thanking them that the daughter they gave to him in marriage has rewarded him with nine children! In some societies, it would be regarded as crazy to expect a woman to give birth to nine children. It would be like the woman has been overused. In the modern Nigerian society, not least because of the real ......