remark D: I wouldn't fault him on that because looking at the present day Nigeria.... which women have come to the fore from political, to socio-economic and religious or traditional spheres?

So when you look on the "surface" and what you see is one-sided... its not far-fetched to make the assumption he made... and he did leave it topen to learn/hear of others (ethnic women) as well....

Yes, its a bold statement to make, but its not, again, what they say is, far-fetched.

bokohalal:

Has an Igbo woman been elected a senator yet?
Is there an Igbo woman church/ religious leader of note?
Can a married Igbo woman enter into a legal agreement without the consent or knowledge or participation of her husband? I remember Tonto Dike being called names on this site for condemning Igbo men and lack of independence for Igbo women.
Do not mention political appointees. Talk of women that have on their own led men,not just women,in history and modern times.
Talk about the modern woman that could on her own leave to live in Japan,Argentina,Australia or anywhere else without the parents or spouse sending her down there.
What percentage of Igbo women own landed property built from their sweat?
Let me stop.

bokohalal:

Has an Igbo woman been elected a senator yet?
Is there an Igbo woman church/ religious leader of note?
Can a married Igbo woman enter into a legal agreement without the consent or knowledge or participation of her husband? I remember Tonto Dike being called names on this site for condemning Igbo men and lack of independence for Igbo women.
Do not mention political appointees. Talk of women that have on their own led men,not just women,in history and modern times.
Talk about the modern woman that could on her own leave to live in Japan,Argentina,Australia or anywhere else without the parents or spouse sending her down there.
What percentage of Igbo women own landed property built from their sweat?
Let me stop.

bokohalal:

Has an Igbo woman been elected a senator yet?
Is there an Igbo woman church/ religious leader of note?
Can a married Igbo woman enter into a legal agreement without the consent or knowledge or participation of her husband? I remember Tonto Dike being called names on this site for condemning Igbo men and lack of independence for Igbo women.
Do not mention political appointees. Talk of women that have on their own led men,not just women,in history and modern times.
Talk about the modern woman that could on her own leave to live in Japan,Argentina,Australia or anywhere else without the parents or spouse sending her down there.
What percentage of Igbo women own landed property built from their sweat?
Let me stop.

Abagworo:

1) As for religious leader of note, have you heard about Port Harcourt's "Mummy B". She preaches in Igbo most times with an English interpreter.

2) Senator Chris Anyanwu is a present Senator from Imo State

3) We've only had one female Governor in Nigeria and she's Igbo.

You don't need to beat about the bush to notice that majority of Nigerian beauty pageants are from the Igbo area. Probably 80% of contestants.

Like I wrote earlier, Igbos seem to accept cultural change very rapidly. Maybe in the past the women never wielded much power but in my area there existed the most powerful woman known as Ezemmiri which translates to "Queen of the water" and there are parts of Igboland where your hometown is your maternal as against the normal African paternal society.

bokohalal: There is a book by a non Bini woman extolling the social and economic independence of the traditional Edo woman and wishing all women in other societies could take a cue.
A BOOK. Not interview or newspaper columnist writeup. Said book was serialised sometime ago in The Vanguard Newspaper.
Will try to remember book's title.
At work. Have to go.

bokohalal: There is a book by a non Bini woman extolling the social and economic independence of the traditional Edo woman and wishing all women in other societies could take a cue.
A BOOK. Not interview or newspaper columnist writeup. Said book was serialised sometime ago in The Vanguard Newspaper.
Will try to remember book's title.
At work. Have to go.

bigfrancis21:

Please, name just 10 women shakers and movers of the Nigerian economy and nation of Edo origin? Don't run off mentioning Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi, because she definitely ain't Bini.

And yea...I don't mean 'married into Edo state' women. I mean Edo women by origin.

I'm waiting...

Abagworo:

1) As for religious leader of note, have you heard about Port Harcourt's "Mummy B". She preaches in Igbo most times with an English interpreter.

2) Senator Chris Anyanwu is a present Senator from Imo State

3) We've only had one female Governor in Nigeria and she's Igbo.

You don't need to beat about the bush to notice that majority of Nigerian beauty pageants are from the Igbo area. Probably 80% of contestants.

Like I wrote earlier, Igbos seem to accept cultural change very rapidly. Maybe in the past the women never wielded much power but in my area there existed the most powerful woman known as Ezemmiri which translates to "Queen of the water" and there are parts of Igboland where your hometown is your maternal as against the normal African paternal society.

bokohalal:
Sorry, I forgot Chris Anyanwu. One of my favourite Igbos.

Odenigbo Aroli:

And Mrs Okadigbo and Mrs Joy Emordi; Emordi being a former senator from Anambra central. Okadigbo,the wife of the late former senate president is the current senator representing Anambra north. Igbo women are virtuous and that's why their men rarely marry from outside...Onyeoma nbu na obi na ife gi di m' mma ka ayi bilibe ndu ebisie ndu amalife aga eme chi....chei

bokohalal:

We did that before and forumites agreed that Edo women trumped Igbo women and Edo men trumped Igbo men considering the population of Edos in comparison with Igbos which is like four million versus fifty million.

[s]The truth remains that Edo women are more socially and economically mobile than their Igbo counterparts and many Igbos have alluded to that here when they had mistakenly thought Edowomen killed their husbands in order to inherit their property.
I can name contemporary Hausa women that are highfliers. It does not derogate from the fact that the traditional Hausa woman is expected to be a housewife.
Politics and tribalism is also a factor. Recently,Igbo political appointees have been disportionately filling vacancies with Igbos and many of you did not see anything wrong with it. In the future,some of this nepotistically appointed officials would be considered achievers!
In the traditional setting,the Edo woman has more freedom than any of its other Nigerian counterpart .
Some are even big gang leaders. Ask Igbo traders of Lagos Street,Benin City!
Most sponsor(ers!) are women. Igbos in Edo understand what I wrote.
The majority of small and medium scale contractors are Edo women.[/s]

bokohalal:

I think I understand ife gi di mma but translate everything. I do not want to think what I think it is.

bokohalal: Any one Nigerian market woman contributes more to the Nigerian economy than Okonjo-Iweila,Deziani and co.

pazienza:


Deziani is not igbo, she is an Ijaw woman,married to an Igbo man.

Eburutu:
Please can I correct who ever wrote the above article that Cross River State is NOT in Igbo land.

AjaanaOka:


Was is written anywhere in that article that Cross River State is in Igboland?

odumchi:


In certain societies, women were allowed to take titles or even enter secret societies, just like men. In the Cross River region of Igboland,

tpiah01:

Located in West Africa, this valley covers 7.5 percent of the continent and extends through ten countries: Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Benin, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria. One of Africa's eight major river basins, the Niger River Valley follows the course of the Niger River, the largest and longest river in West Africa and the third-longest river on the African continent.

In 1859, abolitionist and emigration advocate Martin R. Delany traveled to Liberia and the Niger Valley in an effort to establish a free colony for American blacks; his written account of the expedition, the Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party, was published in 1861.