The Bride Price

In Ibuza, every young man was entitled to his fun.
The blame usually went to the girls. A girl who had had adventures before marriage was never respected in her new home; everyone in the village would know about her past, especially if she was unfortunate enough to be married to an egocentric man

There were men who would go about raping young virgins of thirteen and fourteen, and still expect the women they married to be as chaste as flower buds.

anything imported was considered to be much better than their own old ways.

It is so even today in Nigeria: when you have lost your father, you have lost your parents. Your mother is only a woman, and women are supposed to be boneless. A fatherless family is a family without a head, a family without shelter, a family without parents, in fact a non-existing family. Such traditions do not change very much.