FOR THE DECEASED MAN
FOR THE DECEASED MAN The burial of a man in Igbo land cannot take place until his maternal home people are settled by certain ritual observances. The village people of the deceased at their meeting select persons to visit the maternal home people of the deceased man. The selected people visit the maternal home people of the deceased man on the appointed date following a free market day. Ndi Igbo visit to the maternal village of a deceased man and Maiden Village of the deceased women during Funerals cannot be neglected by the family The visit to the maternal home of the deceased male is called “mkpuru mmai”, in the core Igbo areas, and other dialects have their names for this rite. The announcement at the deceased man’s maternal home people should be that “their grandson is sick in the hospital, and they have come to notify them”. It is against Igbo tradition and not normal, to expressly tell the maternal home people of the deceased m...