The Bride Price
The Bride Price
The Bride Price is a tale of love and the culture and traditions that stand between it in a small close-knit town in Africa. A young girl named Aku-nna unexpectedly falls in love with her schoolteacher, Chike, the son of a former slave. Both know this love cannot be; the people of Ibuza forbid the daughter of a free man to wed the son of a slave, and besides, Aku-nna's mother and father have plans for her to marry a rich classmate whom she despises. Chike and Aku-nna, however, decide to pursue their love, and they challenge tradition and elope. The theme of the novel is that old traditions can be challenged and replaced, however uneasily, while other old customs sometimes prevail over the new.
In the time the story was set, old African traditions were colliding with a surge of modern European customs. After Aku-nna's father, Nna, died the funeral was a prime example of a European-African custom clash. The narrator writes, "Ezekiel Odia's funeral was,......
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