Marriage that no longer has to survive, by Stephanie Shaakaa
The modern marriage has to survive because two people, having alternatives, continue to choose one another.
That understanding of marriage is changing, and nowhere is the change more revealing than in Nigeria, where an institution once held together by family, religion, culture, economics and social pressure is increasingly being negotiated by two individuals who believe they have the right to decide whether the relationship still works for them.
People see anniversaries, holidays, expensive gifts and carefully photographed family moments and begin measuring their private marriage against somebody else’s public performance.
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