Some of our cultures really set us back . Many people haven't married or not even thinking about marriage due to not having enough money .Should bride price be abolished so that there'll be marriage boom ? what's your opinion?

PS during precolonial Nigeria most bride prices were paid with farm products like yam and goat and chicken. These days parents get greedy and demand outrageous items like car and phones, some even demand a House as bride price .

Even if we wanted to, bride price cannot be abolished. Their will be other ways to extort money from the groom. Na culture wey don dey before dem born our ancestors.
If it can be regulated, it will be alright.

Seriously, you are lost. Which proof will you have that you are married to your wife. Even if you wed at the church without bride price you have not married her.

No it shouldn't be abolished, go and ask your elders it's significance they will tell you

there are a lot of cultural practices that should have been abolished since 1960s yet it is still being practiced just because we are too dumb to think of the negative effects of such on us as a people



bride price as no significant importance, it doesn't determine the success or failure of a marriage but what it does is frustrate young men and women who would have lived better if there was no such practice in place. Imagine a man who is hardworking and has made some good money, instead of him to use the money to invest and create employment for maybe 2 people thereby helping the economy in his little way, he instead spends it on alcohol, cloth and bride price and then the money vanishes. this young man's hustle of 3 or 4 years is spent on a venture that others do without a single dime.



this generation has to change a lot of things tbh

Since culture is dynamic and not static, I think it is high time we abolish the payment of bride price and dowry as well. Well, there are families in the East who don't accept the payment of bride, but it is inadequate to rely on individual discretion alone. It has to be collective and multilateral. We might maintain other marriage rites, but the issue of bride price is outdated, and should be phased out. The claim that a lot of money were used in the training of the girl child does not hold water since the amount collected as bride price does not cover the amount spent in her training. So, what purpose does bride price serve?

It is not because the west don't practise it anymore, it is simply because it reduces the dignity of women to a mere commodity to be carted off with money and, it is one of the reasons women suffer in marriages today. In the past women were married, apart from bearing children, to provide addition hand in farm. But today, a lot women are breadwinners of their families and are still shackled by this patriarchial principle.

Me na oyinbo I wan marry
Cause den no dey collect bride price
Well to our people here if den like make Dem abolish am if Dem like make Dem no abolish am
If I marry a Nigerian woman shishi I no go pay
Cause what I want to pay for someone somewhere has already eaten it for free