Musician Selmor Mtukudzi has posted her late father Oliver Mtukudzi’s roora/lobola (bride price) list his in-laws asked him to pay when he married his first wife, Melody Murape.
Musician Selmor Mtukudzi has posted her late father Oliver Mtukudzi’s roora/lobola (bride price) list his in-laws asked him to pay when he married his first wife, Melody Murape.
Melody Murape is Selmor’s mother.
According to a calculation done by 3-mob.com, Mtukudzi was asked to pay 523 Rhodesian dollars.
At the time the roora list was drafted (1978), one British pound was equivalent to two Rhodesian dollars, which translates to a total of GBP262.50.
Using the Bank of England’s inflation calculator, that is £1 370.31. In USD, that is $1 741.2
