Female Empowerment among the Igbo Extraction of Nigeria.
In the recent past, the agitation for women empowerment in Nigeria has gained the attention of diverse groups of the Nigerian population. The need to educate the girl child and redirect her from certain primordial and culture-assigned roles to modern day realities is more expedient now than ever. The paper examines the extent of empowerment, the historical background, and perspectives to gender inequities in Igbo land, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial socio-political roles of the female gender in Igbo land. The study showed a remarkable empowerment of the women folk among the Igbo people of Nigeria. Keywords: Female Empowerment, Gender, Igbo, Nigeria, Post-Colonialism.
Keywords: empowerment, extraction, female, igbo, nigeria