Woman-to-Woman Marriage in African Tradition
A Casestudy of Igbo land
5 min readMar 28, 2021
The answer to this question is yes. It is traditionally permitted in Igbo land for a woman to pay dowry on the head of her fellow woman and calls her, her wife. But this same tradition forbids a man to get married to his fellow man.
Igbo tribes are groups of people with unique cultures and traditions. In Igbo land, men…