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babyosisi (f)
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Um, strange. The Edo, Yoruba & Itsekiri people as well as some Delta-Igbo clans believe that their daughters are too valuable to be haggled over, like a mere commodity. They believe there is NO amount of money that would do justice to the value they attach to their daughters. So why on earth would they want to put a price tag on her head?
Quite often, they just name a symbolic figure, make a big show of collecting it from the groom's family & then return most of it (or all of it) back to them with the same flourish, after making a long speech about how their daughters are NOT for sale.
Simple!. If you can't afford the girl,marry some cheaper girls,end of story  |
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laudate
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And may those who wish to continue hawking their daughters to the highest bidder in order to line their pockets, have a field day!!  |
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laudate
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Iseee
Gosh, you are so-oo-oo funny!! |
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davidylan (m)
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No wonders my younger uncles refused to marry Igbo, it must have been something to do with the cost. |
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nuzo (m)
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That few families have decides to be greedy and to commersiallize the "bride price thing", does not make paying a few naira as bride price as a buyover and as a bad culture. How will a man in his right thinking sense feel he bought a wife with 24 naira? When he cannot even have one round of sex with the cheapest prostitute in Nigeria with that ammount. My state: Ebonyi, south eastern part of Naija does not tolerate the commersiallization of bride price. @poster If you are looking for where to fight for African women, you better head for places like Dafur, somalia etc.  |
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Ivvie
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How can you marry a woman without paying the bride price? That's why marriages don't work today. The western culture isn't for everyone. Do not forget that the westerns don't accept us and neglecting your heritage doesn't make you part of them.
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face2ecaf
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That's why at the slightest provocation or mistake the wife will foever be reminded that "I never finish paying the money wey I take marry you" .  |
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LadyGodiva (f)
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why doesn't the woman pay bride price for the man now
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analyt82 (f)
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I'm not married, but I would BAULK at the thought of my intended paying a price for me!!  Obviously by this time I know he can take care of me. Marriage is when two people come together as one. To share as "ONE". Women are no man's possession.  I think people are getting confused on purpose to keep "tradition". Some traditions need to be let go. If we "woman" want to fight in this world against male dominance and disrespect, then "some" things HAVE to be let go. That doesn't make your culture less important than what it is, it just means, you know how to adjust. Out with the old and in with the new. Change is constant. |
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analyt82 (f)
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I'm not married, but I would BAULK at the thought of my intended paying a price for me!! Obviously by this time I know he can take care of me. Marriage is when two people come together as one. To share as "ONE". Women are no man's possession. I think people are getting confused on purpose to keep "tradition". Some traditions need to be let go. If we "woman" want to fight in this world against male dominance and disrespect, then "some" things HAVE to be let go. That doesn't make your culture less important than what it is, it just means, you know how to adjust. Out with the old and in with the new. Change is constant. |
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