JAMB - Literature In English (2024 - No. 14)

From the novel; The Lion and the Jewel
From the novel; The Lion and the Jewel
From the novel; The Lion and the Jewel

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

Lakunle declines to pay bride price on Sidi because he sees tradition as 

unholy
illegal
babaric
childish

Explanation

Lakunle declines to pay bride price on Sidi because he sees the tradition as barbaric. Lakunle labels the culture that persists on a bride price being paid before a man can marry a woman as "a savage custom, barbaric, outdated" (p. 7)

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