Pre-Colonial Nigeria Gender Roles Essay

The only things in life that is constantly is change. As times constantly change,things change as well.One aspect of culture that changed immensely once the British took over Nigeria is the gender role.The novel Things Fall Apart displays great examples about the gender role before colonial.In this essay,I will explain how gender roles has changed from pre-colonial Nigeria to post-colonial Nigeria.
In pre-colonial nigeria gender roles played a huge part in society. In the passage
"Women in Pre-Colonial Nigeria”,it explains how everything had gender division by saying,“Igbo agrarian societies have traditionally followed careful gender divisions of crops such as the male yam and female cassava plants.”This shows that everything was gendered even the crops.In precolonial nigeria men ruled over their families, including their wives. Women are more like servant than wives obeying their husband every rules,and often living in fear of their husbands.Women didn’t receive an education because they had many other roles and duties to do.Men were more powerful than women and had different roles.Women most important role was first to become a bride then bear many children while men roles were to harvest yams and provide for his family. As said before men were more powerful than women,so men could beat their