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Award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, says the payment of brideprice has become commercialized and she finds it utterly disgusting. She had an evening with a group of young Nigerians in Lagos yesterday where she spoke on several issues and answered pertinent questions.

She said that she is not a fan of brideprice and the idea behind it.

”If you go back in history, the idea of marriage is different from what it is today. The idea of brideprice was fundamentally the man taking gifts to the wife’s family, but there was also an exchange of gifts. There are things the brides family will also give to the grooms 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.

I think we really need to rethink the ways that marriages are being done because it is dangerous in so many levels that many men who think that after all, he paid thousands and so she belongs to me and so If I decide that she should stop working, she should stop. I am not a fan of brideprice” she said