MARRIAGE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
The Marriage Alliance at the Crossroads of Traditional and Modern Culture (By Paul Vincent OMOMBO Senga Ekondo) Volume I Obviously,in general, a man's life on earth passes through three essential stages: birth, marriage, and death. In fact, at the first stage of life, the birth stage, man leaves the spiritual world to enter unconsciously into the physical world. In this circumstance, the family rejoices over the arrival of a new member. In the second stage of life, marriage, a man consciously leaves his father's or mother's family in order to start his own family. In such a situation, the family rejoices to see its own enlargement by becoming a big family and tending towards a clan. In the third stage, that of death, man often unconsciously leaves the physical world to enter the spiritual world. In this circumstance, the family is saddened by its impoverishment due to the los