If I have the opportunity to change one thing about some #igbo cultures, it would be the "barbaric ill practice which widows have to go through upon the death of their husbands"
If I have the opportunity to change one thing about some #igbo cultures, it would be the "barbaric ill practice which widows have to go through upon the death of their husbands"
i believe the world is changing and we need stop any stupid practice
Exactly, those practices are barbaric. Imagine in some places, the woman will be forced to drink water used in bathing her late husband's corpse just to prove her innocence
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This practice forces widows to cut their hairs, Infact this is done by some other widows and they use razor blade to scrape these hairs putting the woman at risk of having cuts and bruises even infection on the head.
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Another one is that the widow is almost treated like a visitor in her own house. She will be given a seperate bucket to bath, seperate plate and spoons, she won't eat together with her children.
#crossculture #hivenaija
She won't be allowed to eat with her children, or enter the kitchen to cook for the first one month of the mourning period. A fellow widow will be the one taking care of her. She won't be allowed to go anywhere.
#crossculture #hivenaija
I support the motion #crossculture
There's need to critically look into these matters I and ban them because women are really going through hell just because their husbands died.
They can't even speak out or complain because the culture forbids that too.
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The world will be a better world when women and men are treated equally but unfortunately this does not happen in every country in the world and I hope that in the future these barbaric acts will change.
I burn with anger each time I hear that a woman has to undergo these barbaric practices all in the name of culture, and the men do free to do whatever they want when their wives pass away.
I hope it ends soon.
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Indeed that practice is barbaric. I wonder why they need to go through all that.
It is not only barbaric but wicked.
You know they say that it's a man's world so women do not have a say at all so they can be treated anyhow and any way.
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I believe they have certain belief around this practice other than the men being the superior
Well, I think it's because they feel that for a man to die, someone might have caused it and the first to suspect is the wife
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This is bad.
Extremely bad, and many innocent women have really suffered ill treatment, wickedness from the hands of their in laws. Some have been deprived of their husband's property.
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Movie had done good in describing this wicked act done on Igbo widows. I hope that tradition is changed
Do these things happen in your culture too?
No, we don't do this
Okay.
I guess it's related to Igbos only
Yeah, I think so too
Alright