Abstract:
This work has its thrust as the harmful traditional practices
against the rights of women among Nsukka Northern Igbo people and
the role of the church in solving these problems. There are lots of
problems which women encounter in a patriarchal world. These
problems have caused a great havoc among them. They are generally
detrimental to the health, psychological and social well being of our
women whose fundamental human rights are also violated. These
practices are widespread among most Nigerian ethnic groups and
usually considered as normal part of life events. However, attempts to
improve the status of women have brought them to the limelight as part
of the problems of development designed to sustain patriarchy, gender
inequality in our contemporary society and the control of women’s
production and reproduction. These harmful traditional practices
include specifically: female gentile mutilation (FAM) harmful delivery
practices (HDP), widowhood practices (WP), child marriage and
teenage pregnancy (CMTP), intergenerational transfer of resources
(ITR) and wife battering (WB). There is no gain saying the fact that all
these problems threaten the self-actualization of our women. These
problems are not well dealt with instead people regard them as
conventions. The researcher made use of primary and secondary
sources of data collection as the researcher’s methodology as well as
participant observation and the work was organized in a descriptive
analytical style in the interpreting the data. The researcher discovered
among other things that it was ignorance and the desire to protect their
