A bad interpretation of a well narrated process. Even though the payment of a bride price is controversial to some Africans, most Africans do not consider that they are buying a woman when they pay a bride price. That is how marriage happens in many African societies; it is not a trade but the establishment of a relationship. The sense of humor in the narrative still fails to mask this bad interpretation of the process.
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I remember talking about lobola in our class lass semester and we had a similar discussion about whether we thought it was demeaning to women. To me it is similar to a dowry that is paid for marriage. It amuses me to see how contemporary views about traditional practices come across. For people to be more aware of different cultures in this more global era you would assume that they would not have such a ethnocentric view about bride prices in Africa.
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