MARADI, Niger — He didn’t hit her. It was just that, less than two years into their marriage, Zalika Amadou’s husband had changed. She’d stuck with her husband for five decades until he died, and was appalled that young women these days didn’t do the same. For centuries, women have been expected to endure bad marriages in many conservative pockets of West Africa. Tradition has bound women so tightly that spouses are sometimes chosen for babies in the womb.

Source: New York Times January 06, 2019 10:00 UTC