AN IGBO WOMAN CAN MARRY AN IGBO WOMAN


Remy Ilona


A discussion about marriage, which the Igbos believe is the gateway to having children, in Igbo culture, will require writing volumes. An Igbo man must marry a woman or women: preferably fellow Igbos. An Igbo woman can marry an Igbo woman. We will discuss how this can happen, and why it can happen.


If an Igbo woman is unable to conceive and produce children with her husband or in a situation where she is unable to bear a male child, Omenana (Igbo culture) allows her to get a wife. This wife will have sexual relations with her husband, and if she conceives, the child will be the child of the woman who married her and of course that of the husband and not denying the biological mother of all her rights as the biological mother of the child. Such a child will call the woman “Mama nnukwu” and the biological mother “Mama obele” meaning big mummy and small mummy.


Igbo people, male and female, do not know how to be happy if they do not have children. They crave for children, because they love children. Examination of their deepest history reveals why they would do many things like what I described, to have children. Their foremost ancestor Abraham the Igbo (Hebrew) and his wife Sarah who acquired Hagar her maid to produce children who would be her children with her husband suffered childlessness for many years. And from their (Igbo) earliest history again we see this people responding to this hunger for children. Abraham’s grandchild Jacob had two wives: Leah and Rachel, who as his cousins had similar traditions and history with him. Rachel who had difficulties conceiving ‘married’ her maid and she produced children with Jacob for her. Leah in competition followed suit. And the four women produced the 12 sons of Israel.


It is this hunger for children and fear of childlessness, which got wired into the genes of their descendant.

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