Hi people,

Just wanted to get some views on this one,

Can someone tell me whether, in Igbo tradition a women must follow her future husbands religion, even though it may not be the right one for them, just because he is the man!

Yes

Lol R231 - straight to the point right!

I don't believe that just because tradition says it is so that it is right; ESP if the man is not against the womans faith! but feels that he will be less of a man if he were to follow her faith - thus consumed with the "because I'm the man syndrome".

It does not matter.
As long as there is money involved.

a women must follow her future husbands religion,

Two of our 'meghads' in Nigeria just performed wine-carrying ceremonies on 2 Igbo ladies from the East(Owerri) to be exact(who were always coming to sleep in our compound for months. . . .with 50,000Naira to purchace rice, goats, and some tinned tomatos e.t.c.)

Funny thing. . .they young men previously married young girls from the North(they had abandoned after marriage to come back to the South. . .only to be impregnated by other men in the North in their absences). Quite difficult to say what kind of religion they'd be practicing in their homes. My mom is visiting. . . when she wakes up, I will ask her.

Ooooooooooooh I just asked her and she said:

"Hmmmmmmm. . . I nor follow dem go o!
I tell them say my hand nor dey for h-inside o!
I nor know which wan be Christian and which wan be Mooz-lum.
Sha-sha. . . sometimes dem say dem dey go mosque. . .some times them say dem dey go church."

What religion in the final analysis is anyone's guess. . . at the right price.


[size=16pt]LWKMD!!! [/size]

Blazay:

It does not matter.
As long as there is money involved.

Two of our 'meghads' in Nigeria just performed wine-carrying ceremonies on 2 Igbo ladies from the East(Owerri) to be exact(who were always coming to sleep in our compound for months. . . .with 50,000Naira to purchace rice, goats, and some tinned tomatos e.t.c.)

Funny thing. . .they young men where previously married young girls from the North(they had abandoned after marriage to come back to the South. . .only to be impregnated by other men in the North in their absences). Quite difficult to say what kind of religion they'd be practicing in their homes. My mom is visiting. . . when she wakes up, I will ask her.

Ooooooooooooh I just asked her and she said:

"Hmmmmmmm. . . I nor follow dem go o!
I tell them say my hand nor dey for h-inside o!
I nor know which wan be Christian and which wan be Mooz-lum.
Sha-sha. . . sometimes dem say dem dey go mosque. . .some times them say dem dey go church."

What religion in the final analysis is anyone's guess. . . at the right price.


[size=16pt]LWKMD!!! [/size]

Lol . . .

Madness in practice!