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Author(s)
Popoola Sulaiman Akorede, Agbabiaka-mustapha Muinat A.
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1506/2017.12.004
Affiliation(s)
Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe Lagos State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
The patriarchal nature of
African society generally lays emphasis on the superiority of men over women in
every sphere of life. When a woman dies, in most African societies, her legacy
is usually inherited by the husband, children, and her family. But if a man dies, the widow, usually
experiences false accusations of
killing her husband to deny her share of her husband’s properties. This paper
examines how the dynamics of cultural practices in Nigeria promotes abuse of
inheritance rights of women and discusses the possibilities of using Islamic inheritance rules
as a divine solution to the abuse of inheritance rights of women. The research
questions as follows: what is the nature of women’s rights to father’s estate?
What is the nature of widow’s right to the husband’s estate? What is your
perception about the Islamic law of inheritance? The data for this study were
collected using questionnaire and simple percentage was used for the analysis. In
this respect, a questionnaire was administered to 220 women who were purposely
selected from the three major tribes in Lagos state, Nigeria. The result showed
that various cultures in Nigeria favour male child, grant male higher rights to
land and other properties and promote abuse of inheritance rights against women.
KEYWORDS
abuses of women, African society, cultural practices, religious panacea, inheritance rights, major tribes in Nigeria
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