Nigerian artist Brymo has expressed significant concerns regarding the custom of paying bride price, arguing that it represents a transfer of ownership over women instead of celebrating their individuality and independence. On August 23, 2024, he took to his Instagram story to articulate his views on how this tradition perpetuates antiquated perceptions of women as commodities.
He wrote, “I saw in a movie scene the other day where a man told a female love interest that ‘a woman that can be bought is not worth having’.. and it all made sense to me without a doubt left in my mind, and that the practice of paying bride-price depicts the transfer of ownership of the bride.”
Brymo elaborated, indicating that this tradition complicates matters for both the bride and groom.
He added, “And I may participate nought of that, and especially because the other who was paid for may ever still choose to be as they want to afterwards… and posing ownership problems for the procurer…and a man expresses full ownership on things he pays for…yet a woman ain’t a thing to own or one to dictate for.”
In a subsequent post, he emphasized the importance of making abortion healthcare accessible and legal, aiming to reduce instances of child abandonment.
He wrote, “Let abortions on all safe levels be legal, and so that folks may be enforced to stay and raise the kids they bring forth by law… there is too much of letting adults walk away from commitments they pretended to be partaking of a while before..-; and abortion being legal may then let us decide properly what child to keep, and the law to stay and raise them may then exist for knowing that no child may be abandoned!!”
