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Zeitzen notes that Western [[perceptions]] of African society and [[marriage]] [[patterns]] are [[biased]] by "contradictory concerns of [[nostalgia]] for traditional African culture versus critique of ''polygamy'' as oppressive to [[women]] or detrimental to development. Many international human rights organisations as well as women's rights groups in many countries have called for its abolition. The practice has been ruled to violate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICCPR ICCPR] (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), and the United Nations has recommended that the [[practice]] be abolished.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy]

Zeitzen notes that Western [[perceptions]] of African society and [[marriage]] [[patterns]] are [[biased]] by "contradictory concerns of [[nostalgia]] for traditional African culture versus critique of ''polygamy'' as oppressive to [[women]] or detrimental to development. Many international human rights organisations as well as women's rights groups in many countries have called for its abolition. The practice has been ruled to violate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICCPR ICCPR] (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), and the United Nations has recommended that the [[practice]] be abolished.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy]

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In earliest times [[women]] were the [[property]] of the [[community]], and the [[mother]] [[dominated]] the [[family]]. The early chiefs owned all the [[land]] and were proprietors of all the [[women]]; [[marriage]] required the consent of the tribal ruler. With the passing of [[communism]], [[women]] were held [[individually]], and the [[father]] gradually [[assumed]] [[domestic]] [[control]]. Thus the [[home]] had its beginning, and the prevailing polygamous [[customs]] were [[gradually]] displaced by [[monogamy]]. ('''''Polygamy''''' is the [[survival]] of the [[female]]-[[slavery]] element in [[marriage]]. [[Monogamy]] is the [[slave]]-[[free]] [[ideal]] of the matchless [[association]] of one man and one woman in the exquisite [[enterprise]] of [[home]] building, [[offspring]] rearing, [[mutual]] [[culture]], and self-improvement.) - [[69:9|Private Property]]

In earliest times [[women]] were the [[property]] of the [[community]], and the [[mother]] [[dominated]] the [[family]]. The early chiefs owned all the [[land]] and were proprietors of all the [[women]]; [[marriage]] required the consent of the tribal ruler. With the passing of [[communism]], [[women]] were held [[individually]], and the [[father]] gradually [[assumed]] [[domestic]] [[control]]. Thus the [[home]] had its beginning, and the prevailing polygamous [[customs]] were [[gradually]] displaced by [[monogamy]]. ('''''Polygamy''''' is the [[survival]] of the [[female]]-[[slavery]] element in [[marriage]]. [[Monogamy]] is the [[slave]]-[[free]] [[ideal]] of the matchless [[association]] of one man and one woman in the exquisite [[enterprise]] of [[home]] building, [[offspring]] rearing, [[mutual]] [[culture]], and self-improvement.) - [[69:9|Private Property]]