JAMB - Literature In English (2024 - No. 14)
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the culture that persists on a bride price being paid before a man can marry a woman as "a savage custom, barbaric, outdated" (p. 7)
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