Why Aren't Women Allowed To Build Houses Or Own Property?

thanks for all you comments i agree with you that they deserve the right to own moveable and landed property.

Any lady can own any property, but i still subscribe to the lady telling d husband, was trust not the basis of their marriage? don't feel threatened jooo

@ThiefoftheHeart
take am easy now, haba, d guy fit dey repentant after the thorough analysis by folks in here,

@Oluite,
R u sure of what u just said? I no your granny and aunties o

yeah Lewa, i agree with you.
Funny thing was i got a copy of the widow yesterday (you know yourself!!  ), after watching it i had to reconsider my oppinion. Perhaps many of us have never experienced it before but in the hinterland where many of us never go to, the practice of female domination still goes on.
The movie reminded me of 1998 when my grandpa died and my grandma had to go through some of the things i saw in the widow. had her head shaved off, was not allowed to attend the funeral and had to spend a week stuck in her kitchen with some old ladies busy "mourning" except she was not supposed to shed tears . . . 

This things still go on, many of us are lucky to be on the good end of the stick. Or maybe its part of culture that is fading away?

@thiefofhearts

abi! at least nollywood has helped one person! Lol. they arent entirely useless.

Really its not compulsory that you MUST post on every board if you have nothing to say. 

Maybe my Reading anc Comprehension experts can point out where anything about property was mentioned there?

There is nothing wrong with a woman shaving her head or mourning her husband according to tradition.

Did you mention anything about farmland in your prior post?. . .Ode!

Point still remains, I see nothing wrong with a woman shaving her head. Infact where I come from, all family members are supposed to shave their heads. Shaving your head isn't that difficult, I don't see anything denigrating about it.

You talk of your grandma, was she childless?. . .What were her children doing while they were stripping their mom of their belongings? Weak!

@donzman

last time i checked, shaving off a woman's head will not resurrect her husband from the dead! how come men don't go through all these so called rites?  

So saying a woman should shave her head when her husband dies in lunacy? OR is saying that Dvidylan's uncles/aunts should have defended his grandma lunacy?. . .Why did your parents stand by why your grandma was treated that way?

I won't even sit here and anyone will treat my grandma like that, are you kidding me?. . .Since when did your balls get that big?

@spoilt

Men shave their head too, it's only not mentioned because men wear shaved heads already AND Men often die earlier than women.

@donzman

    and yeah guys shave their heads sometimes but those that don't want to are not tackled to the floor, held in a choke hold and shaved bald.they are left alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have your ever heard of BULLYING?. . .If there is nobody to defend the woman or even man for that matter, opportunists will always come along to take what they feel they can. Heck look away from Nigeria, look what is happening in the James Brown or Anna Nicole Smith case. Opportunists will come and take away whatever they can. It's upto the woman's children to come and defend their mother's rights, if they do not do that, opportunists will take over.


How do you know this?. . .Men shave their head and do whatever they have to do. It's hair for chrissake, what's the big deal?

What is this world turning into?. . .Shaving your head is now too much of a sacrifice when your husband dies?


Shaving your head SIGNIFIES the passing on of your husband!

I can as well say I do not want a wedding, I could invest the money spent on something else. Right? But it is something that is culturally expected to signify marriage and at such, I have to do it.

Just like a funeral, some people will save a lot of money just throwing a dead relative into a grave and calling it a day!

just wondering.
If the woman shaves off her hair,is she prohibited from wearing a wig?
Will they capture her and snatch it off?
Now that would be unfair!!!

Up with tradition that breeds divorce rates of 50%.

@Spoilt

My grandpa died in '04 and my grandma shaved her head. Her self esteem is not any lower than it was prior to his death just because she had to shave her hair.

By the time you've been married for 40+ years (if you make it that far), shaving your head in the event of your husband's death won't seem like a big deal anymore. You think a 40 year marriage is like your boyfriend - girlfriend or occasional 3 year courtship!