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Amazing: See What Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says about Bride Price

by Anjorin Dare

On bride-price

I think if you go back in history, the idea of marriage is different from what it is today. There was bride-price where fundamentally, you give things to the bride’s family, but there was also an exchange of gifts. There were things the bride’s family would give the groom’s family. There was an exchange and it was a bit more fluid. Now, there is a commercialism to the whole Idea that I really find disgusting.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think we really need to rethink the ways that marriages are being done because it is dangerous in so many levels. There are many men who think that, afterall he paid thousands and so she belongs to me and if i decide that she should stop working, she should stop.

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I am not a fan of bride-price. When I did my marriage, my father said that he doesn’t want money, he said that he just wants it to be symbolic. What was done was that, they brought one kobo-the old one kobo coin. He said that he wanted to be a symbolic thing. We are not actually going to have an exchange of money because we are not selling anybody. I think these are ways to start to change it. In my opinion, I think we should just get rid of the whole idea.

I gives not just the husband, but the husband’s family, if they are not good people, the feeling that they paid. And it makes the women think that she’s been bought. So, sometimes, you can’t even voice what you really think or be your real self because you think you’ve been bought.

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