How many cows is your partner worth?

It's coming Valentine's Day And as a romantic date par excellence, it is likely that your partner will give you a wonderful and dreamy gift. Gifts whose symbolic value can go far beyond the price paid for it. There are issues that are impossible to assess with certainty. However, from today a App It makes it easier for us to put a price on something as intangible as our partner. Developed in Africa and with a clear humorous tone, the “lobola counter” is an App capable of determining how much cows our partner is worth. Without wanting to be an arbitrator between family conflicts in Kenya, Nigeria or South Africa, what this App does is calculate the price that families must agree on so that their children can get married; well, that's how it is:lobola” as it is known the dowry In some African countries, the calculation, which is also given in dollars and euros, takes into account various aspects of the couple, ranging from physical appearance to education and family responsibilities. Thus, a woman with a university education, who has not been a mother and has not been married, will cost the man's family more than a woman with less education and children who has already been married. According to the calculator, the family of a 27-year-old woman, 165 centimetres tall, 58 kilos and size 38, considered attractive, with university education and employment, single and without children, will receive a dowry of 150 centimetres. nine cows or $6,651. If the woman is 40 years old, 160 centimetres tall, weighs 80 kilos and wears a size 46, has only a high school diploma, does not work, has been married and has children, the calculation yields a negative balance of two cows or $1,339, which she should presumably pay to the husband's family. Controversial both for its concept and for addressing a widespread tradition in Africa, the lobola calculator has been downloaded more than 20,000 times.