Jenny,
in Igbo culture women own land the following ways: lets begin with the
family/ancestral land...which is shared among all the sons of the
family...and this includes the females who chose to remain
unmarried....each son owns his share with his wife/wives
and children. I hope you know that in the traditional Igbo society,
every nearly adult was married...so there was almost no chance for
anybody not to benefit from the family estate......the sons directly,
and their sisters through their husbands who are sons in other
families.....and should an Igbo girl remain unmarried and decide never
to marry, she gets a share of the family land....but should she
eventually marry, she relinguishes what she got to her
brothers....because she acquires a portion of the land through her
marriage...husband...reading carefully one would notice that some other
customs, traditions, etc, are intertwined with the land laws of the
Igbos. Sharing family property among brothers is contentious enough, and
will even become worse when their brothers in law join the fray though
their sisters who are their wives...one can only understand some of
these things with careful study and when one divests oneself of feelings
behind the statement expressed by Jenny....One made by our primitive
forefathers which cannot be changed because it's only against women not
men or one genuinely made for our greater posterity?
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