POSTHUMOUS MARRIAGE IN IGBO LAND: A PATRIARCHAL CULTURAL ENSLAVEMENT AND GENDER DEBASEMENT

Rev. Fr. Nnaemeka Emmanuel Agujiobi (PhD)

Abstract


Posthumous marriage in Igboland: A Patriarchal Cultural Enslavement and Gender Debasement, investigates the reason why people should in their right mind marry a dead person. The paper discovers that this practice is embedded strongly in the culture of the people whereby relatives in order to make certain that a family line does not die, marry a woman to procreate in the name of their dead male relative; and to see as well that his inheritance is not transferred to other people. The finding reveals that, some of the women in this marriage are often not mentally balanced. And some because of this imbalance were tricked into this marriage. Other causes found were poverty, illiteracy, love for the dead and crass ignorance of the implications of necrogamy. This work recommends the abolishment of this nefarious custom since it tends to debase the image of God in the human person especially as it concerns women. The method used is historic descriptive, whereby the situation was analyzed, and the detrimental, and consequential implications x-rayed.


Keywords


Posthumous Marriage, Igboland, Patriarchy, Culture, Debasement.

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