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rainbowdash4l in #pimp • 17 days ago

My best friend is from Nigeria (Benin City) and lives here in Rotterdam…

His grandma passed about 7 months ago… I can’t wrap my head around how it works in Nigeria - for me it is just so different from how we do things.

In his case, the village elders determine when she can have her funeral and there seems to be big money involved. He took a plane to attent the funeral … 3 days before The funeral, the elders decided on another day … end of October…

For me, that is something that I find very very difficult to understand. Interesting how cultures can differ so much (here it is within a week)

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thelastdash 17 days ago

I think there might be an underlying issue that makes the village elders to be the one who decides when they can do the funeral. Nigeria and especially Edo state where Benin city is part of has a strong tradition regarding marriage rites.

If a man fails to perform some rites when the wife is alive, during funeral of the woman, he must do everything that he failed to do as tradition demand else the corpse won't be buried. And these kind of rites over a deceased attracts heavy amount of money. That's what I think your friend case might be. And when it gets to this kind of thing, you need the consent of the elders before you can do anything.

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