Men Killing Their Wives As a very young child growing up in the Igbo tribe there were many important women in our village. Many were killed under unknown tragic circumstances. It was only when we got older that we learned that many of the women were killed for the most trivial reasons, some by their own husbands. To compound matters we learned that the killing of women by their husbands was acceptable behavior in our culture. My fathers’ tribe has many customs, some are; the throwing away of twins or triplets, having many wives, not touching or burying someone who committed suicide, beating your wives when they don’t follow instructions, and worst of all killing women for trivial reasons. When women are killed for any reason, children
