"Bride price is demonic"_ Uche Maduagwu says the practice should be abolished
He emphasized that since the killing of twins can be abolished in Nigeria, the same should be applied to bride price, he wrote, "A bride price is demonic and our parents are slave masters for allowing their daughters to be sold into #marriage."
"If killing of twins can be aborted in Nigeria, why can't we do same for #bride price on our women?
"I wept bitterly when a newly married #doctor friend of mine called me yesterday night narrating the shock of her life, according to her, she heard her husband boasting to his friends while drinking together that, " He has paid his wife bride price, and he is legally and officially her master and can do anything with her since she has been brought with a heavy price that even if he sleeps around, she has no choice than to forgive and shut up", can you imagine such nonsense.
"A lot of men will not say this openly but psychology, it's there and it shows in their actions.
The definition of women's identities and their sense of self-worth in #marriage, was determined by men through the payment of #brideprice. That is not only disgusting but it also shows the value we place on women in #Nigeria. A #culture that create room for women to be commercialized and used as a bargain tool before getting #married is flawed. Some would argue that the concept of #bride price, on it own, it's not buying somebody, but a symbol of #love, seriously? You negotiate a fee or price on a woman in exchange for her or price on a woman 3 exchange for her to getting married and you can it love?
"No, that's a #marital slavery love because that bride price has both psychological and social implications for the men who pays and for the woman for whom it is paid, because psychologically, the practice created on ownership mentality in men."
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