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Why Igbo Men Overseas Marry Whites, Igbo Leader Abroad Reveals

by Okechukwu
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The leader of Ndigbo in New Zealand and Australia who also doubles as the leader of Igbos in the Asia-Pacific, Chief Ugwumba Austin Muoka today, 6th July 2021, gave us what is one of the most salient reasons for an issue that has worried Igbo people at home about their counterparts abroad. Igbo men’s penchant for marrying women of their host communities can be said to have skyrocketed.

In an interview with Anaedo TV, the chief was asked his take on Igbo (Nigerian) men abroad marrying foreigners and where this leaves Igbo girls of marriable age.

To respond to this, he started with a proverb about the fact that no one goes to a prayer house under normal circumstances. This could mean anything from the fact that the men were madly in love to some sort of symbiotic move. He punctuated this pregnant speech with the pragmatic mantra “it is what it is”.

Chief Muoka went on to say that one reason some Igbo men are wary of coming home to get a woman for marriage is the situation of the craze for rights.

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“Some men come home,” he said, “to marry people they feel are from the same culture and bring them abroad, but in the space of one year, she has become more Catholic than the pope, telling them you can’t do this, you can’t do that. Basically controlling you.”

When it was pointed out to him that some men marry women from home for exploitative reasons, he concurred. He said he was aware how nursing has become a hot cake for many men abroad, lazy men who would bring these women overseas and push them to work overtime while the men meander about.

The leader also mentioned the present difficulty many Nigerians face abroad. For them in the New Zealand-Australia axis, it is even worse as the covid pandemic and restrictions have seen many stranded overseas.

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