All this noise about how women inherit their husbands property? What if I don't have a husband? You people now want us to rely on the kindness of our fathers/brothers for our inheritance but my brothers just earn it with their dick? Ara gbabukwe unu
What if as a woman, I have a wife and she is also Igbo (yes, it takes a minute, read it again, open your mind a little) so we are both inheritance free then? What if I am Trans? Suprise motherfucker, am I now included?
Since my brothers are going to inherit property and I am not, at what point...ESPECIALLY AS AN ADA...do I stop taking responsibility for caring for my parents so my brothers can take over? When they marry? This didn't happen with my mother? Where are the customs??
See Igbo culture and misogyny are very intertwined. I have watched my mom and aunt take responsibility for their parents until they died while her 6 brothers debated about land and shit and contributed money for their care when they could.
My grandfather insisted that his daughters would be educated before they got married, great. His benevolence never extended to including them in a will. For all the kindness of my mom's brothers, they never included them in the land either. These are good men.
My dad and I were having a conversation where he was discussing the family home in the village and I wasn't really engaged in it and he asked why, I told him that as far as I knew that place was no longer my home so I really wasn't invested in it and he sago talk to my brothers
He seemed hurt by it and I told him that if he had a will that included all of us (2 boys and 2 girls) then I would feel invested in the maintenance and upkeep of the village house but till then, it belongs to the boys okwa ya?
I have heard him discuss land and sharing it among his brothers and never once have his sisters come up. My father is a good man. Good men are not the solution to blatant misogyny and injustice
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