By Monique Gilmore
Griffith University business student Naseema Mustapha has featured on the panel of SBS show Insight to discuss dowry customs in cultural weddings.
Naseema talked about her own dowry experiences around her 2017 Gold Coast wedding to husband Mohamed.
“We are Muslim and although we come from different cultural backgrounds we follow the Islamic tradition which overrides our cultural one,” she said.
“The dowry negotiation is between the bride and the groom; the family does not particularly get involved.
“Whatever the bride requests the groom obliges to. At the same time the bride is advised to ask for something he can afford.”
WATCH: Naseema Mustapha discusses her dowry on SBS
Naseema has asked Mohamed to choose one single goat in his home country of Sierra Leone and for him to pray and then slaughter the goat.
“He will cook the food and feed the poor– and that is our dowry.”
Currently studying a degree in International Tourism and