A woman of Lusaka’s Matero Township recently dragged her brother in law to court for failing to pay dowry despite being married to her cousin for 20 years. In this matter, Mary Mbewe, 43, wanted Chrispin Zapasi to pay up what he owed to the family. Standing before Matero Local Court Magistrate Lewis Mumba, Mbewe said that Zapasi only paid half of what he was charged for damage (fine for impregnating a woman out of wedlock) and that he was never charged for marriage. “Ba Chrispin is my in-law, but we have brought him here to court because we have called him several times, and he didn’t want to come. We called him so that we could discuss the dowry...