I have researched this. I can find absolutely no evidence of this alledged system of organised ritual massacre of our twin children as claimed by the white colonial evil christian missionaries. I am not saying that there were no cases of infanticide. But it was not exclusive to Igboland or Africa. Infact the champions of infanticide in history are white europeans, followed by the South Americans.

The evidence I found why there were very rare cases of twins in precolonial Igboland is that the second twin is either sold off, or given away or in very rare cases, made to serve the local deity but cannot be considered as a legitimate son for inheritance purposes. This does not apply to girls. There were many twin girls in igboland. Many girls were betrothed at birth and married away as soon as menstruation starts. She then becomes part and parcel of her husband's family. There were no divorces and no family records were kept.

When the missionaries came, they sought to give the dog a bad name in order to kill it. They demonised our culture. It was bad enough to separate twins at birth but they accused us of killing them because we kept no records of family lineages and speaking of twins were a taboo as were many things in those days.

I challenge the advocates of this malicious falsehood against Igbo people to provide one single piece of evidence that is not "he told me, I was told", to substantiate their claim.

Alfa Seltzer: I have researched this. I can find absolutely no evidence of this alledged system of organised ritual massacre of our twin children as claimed by the white colonial evil christian missionaries. I am not saying that there were no cases of infanticide. But it was not exclusive to Igboland or Africa. Infact the champions of infanticide in history are white europeans, followed by the South Americans.

The evidence I found why there were very rare cases of twins in precolonial Igboland is that the second twin is either sold off, or given away or in very rare cases, made to serve the local deity but cannot be considered as a legitimate son for inheritance purposes. This does not apply to girls. There were many twin girls in igboland. Many girls were betrothed at birth and married away as soon as menstruation starts. She then becomes part and parcel of her husband's family. There were no divorces and no family records were kept.

When the missionaries came, they sought to give the dog a bad name in order to kill it. They demonised our culture. It was bad enough to separate twins at birth but they accused us of killing them because we kept no records of family lineages and speaking of twins were a taboo as were many things in those days.

I challenge the advocates of this malicious falsehood against Igbo people to provide one single piece of evidence that is not "he told me, I was told", to substantiate their claim.

We've treated this topic earlier. Some parts of Igbo killed twins but just like every other negative news, they made it more like a general Igbo issue. 90% of Igbos were not involved in twin killing.

www.nairaland.com/580915/does-one-knows-why-twins/2

AlfaSeltzer:
I have researched this. I can find absolutely no evidence of this alledged system of organised ritual massacre of our twin children as claimed by the white colonial evil christian missionaries. I am not saying that there were no cases of infanticide. But it was not exclusive to Igboland or Africa. Infact the champions of infanticide in history are white europeans, followed by the South Americans.

The evidence I found why there were very rare cases of twins in precolonial Igboland is that the second twin is either sold off, or given away or in very rare cases, made to serve the local deity but cannot be considered as a legitimate son for inheritance purposes. This does not apply to girls. There were many twin girls in igboland. Many girls were betrothed at birth and married away as soon as menstruation starts. She then becomes part and parcel of her husband's family. There were no divorces and no family records were kept.

When the missionaries came, they sought to give the dog a bad name in order to kill it. They demonised our culture. It was bad enough to separate twins at birth but they accused us of killing them because we kept no records of family lineages and speaking of twins were a taboo as were many things in those days.

I challenge the advocates of this malicious falsehood against Igbo people to provide one single piece of evidence that is not "he told me, I was told", to substantiate their claim.

May the Most High bless you for this....
most Igbos do not know that killing of twins was not an Igbo thing... but was as a result of Efik influence on Igboland.
This is why we must not let the Europeans write our history