Women are not properties - Actress Toni Tones calls for abolition of bride price

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Nollywood actress, Toni Tones has waded in on the controversy surrounding the "bride price" culture which is predominant in Africa.

In a tweet she shared, the actress called for the abolition of bride price because women are not to be sold.

Toni Tones tweeted;

Scrap bride price culture. Women are not property to be and sold.


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