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Agyale

Nzema · Nzema, Ghana · Social Institution

The Nzema word for marriage. It appears in the title of Signorini's 1973 study of agɔnwole agyalɛ, and a related form, agyalɛhɔlɛ, is used in the Nzema translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 16, on the right to marry).

The two families met to arrange the agyalɛ.

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