BRIDE PRICEI know enough women whose partner’s attitudes towards sex changed as soon as they had paid bride price for their wives. One woman I encountered not very long was in the process of securing a loan to pay bride price for herself. She had quit an abusive marriage only for her father to demand that she either goes back so that the man can pay her bride price or to pay the bride price herself. The bride price may have been a well-intentioned tradition acting as a platform for families to build friendship but it has grown into something else today. “But I paid for your bride price.

Source: Daily Nation May 26, 2018 08:26 UTC