My Father Sold Me For Twelve Cows - Grace Masanja

In Tanzania if a Sukuma man is attracted to a girl, he would find details about where she lives and what her routine is. When he finds out, he would wait for her where he thinks is the best place to get her and then grab her.

This is so common such that whenever a girl is missing her parents needs not to call the police, they already know what happened.

They will ask the man not to release their daughter, as long as he is attracted to her, he should pay the bride price in cattle.

Grace Masanja was abducted and raped for 11 months when she was 12 for not agreeing to marry an old man who paid the dowry of 12 cows to her father