The Igbo Societal Rituals In The Ibo Culture

To start, the Ibo people have many societal rituals in their culture where women have major parts in them. For example, the Uri ritual is a ceremony where the suitor brings palm-oil to everyone in the bride’s family; this is primarily a woman’s ritual because the bride’s mother is expected to make food for the entire village with the help of other women. Also, during the Feast of the New Yam women have a role in taking the yams from the old harvest, and making yam foo-foo, which is a soup with mostly yams and vegetables that helps make room for the new harvest. During the Isa-Ifa ritual, women have a huge job in questioning the wife about being faithful throughout her separation from her husband, and the wife would swear that she was faithful