Dehumanizing Practices to Widows in Nigeria. How are widows treated in Nigeria? Why are widowhood rites performed? What influences the practice?

In Nigeria, women are regarded as appendages to their husbands. For this reason they face a lot of inhuman traditional practices that are harmful to their health.

Widowhood is a dishonourable situation which happens to women after the death of their husbands.
And widowhood practices are the rituals that the woman has to undergo immediately after the death of her husband.

Unfortunately, in Africa and especially in Nigeria, these rituals are dehumanizing and obnoxious.

When the man dies, his wife is usually the prime suspect to his death. Thus she must undergo these rituals to prove her innocence.

But when the woman dies, her husband is given all the comfort that he needs to withstand the loss. He has free access to go wherever he wants.

Even if he is confined to the house, he has free access to move about within the house. And part of the funeral processes are funded by his inlaws.

In Nigeria, despite modernization, the widowhood practices have continued to be practiced openly. But for the working woman, some parts of the rituals have been modified.

And no ethnic group or tribe is left behind in these dehumanizing practices to widows in Nigeria.

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