My Dad Doesn’t Approve of My Fiance’

I am 25 and He is 31.I completed the university two years ago and he in 2006.We have been in a relationship for the past 3 yrs. He fits into the kind of man I want as my husband. However I need your advice on some challenges we are facing.

I introduced him to my parents and my mother approves of him however my father does not. My father’s reasons are:
1. My fiance is physically challenged in his right hand and he(my father) will feel ashamed before his people
2. He is a teacher and cannot take very good care of me as teachers are not well paid in my country
3. He is not our tribe’s man and he does not like his tribe
4. I should further my studies in masters’ degree and finish with my professional courses before marrying (Myself doing the financing)
5. That I will only have his permission to marry at age 30.

My father is too stern with his decisions. My parents are no longer together, and he hardly listens to the advice of a woman. Unfortunately I don’t know a lot about my father’s relatives as he has discouraged us from getting acquainted with his family relations. At the moment I am in a different region with my mum, and both my dad and my fiancé are in the same region. My dad at the moment avoid calls and meetings with him.

We love each other so much and want to settle as soon as possible. What do we do, he threatens he will not support my marriage with him. Please advise us, my fiance’s family is pressurizing him to marry another woman since my father is delaying him.