Its August. A time Igbo women travel home to make laws for themselves and their communities.
I am an Igbo man but it didn't not occurr to me that women make laws that govern igbos apart from traditions until i read an old foreign news article on Igbo women and laws.
Yes, august meeting its not always fun. Daily these women come together to deliberate on issues that affects them, their husbands, their children and their farming. Its more serious than you think. It takes a lot of time, arguments, counter arguments to come up to something. At the end, a law would be decided. Men usually don't have the patience it takes to make this laws. Basically meetings don't take more than 3 hours but during August meetings, women leave home as early as 8 AM until 6 pm. Ofcourse, they don't leave without making privisions for their husbands and children. Failure to do that can also attack penalties if the husband make a report.
But at the end, laws would be made, which would guide them and the communities until the next august when the laws will be reviewed and complaints made, penalties executed. They make and execute their laws while the men are helpless but comply.