Love and Stigma
Subtitle: the Outcast System : the Outcast System Elimination Project / Sir Adolphus O.M. Ekejiuba, KSJI
Publisher: Xlibris Corp; Xlibris
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Bloomington, IN]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781514415221
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Igbo (African people); Social change; Caste
Other titles: Outcast System; Outcast System Elimination Project
Description: xx, 139 pages : 23 cm
Notes: "Rev. date: 01/07/2106"--T. p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-133) and index.
Table of contents: title: Objective; title: Origin of the idea of the project; title: Love and stigma: young lovers, Ike and Obioma; title: My background; title: My own experience; title: Growing up; title: Origin of the outcast system; title: The outcasts in the present day; title: Earlier attempts to stop the outcast system: the church ; my stand on the above ; Government's position; title: Why it persists; title: Slaves and outcasts; title: The persisting aspects; title: Segregated habitation; title: Why the practice of the outcast system is baseless; title: From science: blood transfusion ; Body parts transplants ; Conjugal relations and resultant children; title: Social setting of today; title: Bad traditions that were successfully abandoned; title: Elsewhere; title: Some of our traditions that have ceased to exist: Killing of twins ; Dress code ; Burying of wives alive with dead husbands ; Use of human heads to bury important personalities ; Belief in Ogbanje ; The reincarnation theory ; Noneducation of the girl child ; Female genital mutilation ; Idol worship ; Further discriminatory measures against women; title: Distasteful social segregations in other places; title: Ignorance at work; title: Who should get involved; title: This approach to stop the outcast system.