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I paid my own bride price, it still hurts - Anne Kansiime

Anne Kansiime.

Ugandan comedienne Anne Kansiime has shared details of her previous marriage to Gerald Ojok. The bubbly Kansiime revealed that she ended up paying her bride price, in her words ‘to make it easy for Ojok to marry her.’

“I accused someone of marrying me long enough for the whole world to believe it and him to believe it and I also believed it. Later when I realized that when you are married, it is when a man wakes up on his two feet, pays your bride price, takes you to church and then marries you; none of that had happened,” she said.

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