Another Yoruba bride is toeing the line of @Eniolahu, a Nigerian feminist who gained popularity about this time last year, when she refused to kneel to her husband during their traditional Yoruba wedding. While Eniola was hotly criticised on social media at the time, there seems to be a shift in public reaction towards the seeming revolt. Another Yoruba bride, Abidemi shared a short clip from her traditional wedding where she was hesitant to kneel to her husband as part of marriage rites.
Torn between following her conviction to not kneel and the prevailing demands of culture, the bride struggled as she was asked to kneel to him but her man held her up, as guests shouted in the background ‘kunle, kun le’– Yoruba word for ‘kneel’. The new bride took to her Twitter handle yesterday to praise her newlywed husband, Busayo, for acknowledging her aversion to the culture of kneeling to him even as he cally told the audience to let his wife be.
The reaction to Abidemi’s position regarding kneeling was received quite well by social media users who praised the couple for their mutual understanding and love, a clear deviation ftom the reactions that met Eniola’s similar scenario last year. Turns out, like everything else culture is subject to change.
The new bride shared a video showing when her man stopped her from kneeling to feed him during their wedding and wrote;
“This man knows!
He knows my reservation about this kneeling down thing but my decision to do it because of culture. But he said No and insisted to everyone that I don’t have to kneel to feed him. Ahn, I made the best choice!”
He knows my reservation about this kneeling down thing but my decision to do it because of culture. But he said No and insisted to everyone that I don't have to kneel to feed him.
