Most Igbo daughters read this and acknowledge that their parents would have invested every last dime in their first son, and whatever spare is left on their other son. https://twitter.com/toolzo/status/1328383947143778304

Nigeria continues to be a place of hopelessness for women and it breaks my heart. Women are second class citizens in that country, and it doesn’t even matter how successful they are or if they’re born into richer, more educated families.

This is the reason why when I think of retirement and I think about places in Nigeria, I’m still not sure what the friendliest place is for women (that isn’t overcrowded with bad air quality ).

The East still feels to me like a place that won’t let women live their best lives.

The level of entitlement Igbo sons are imbibed with is astonishing (FYI- don’t come into my mentions telling me it’s the same everywhere, that’s not what I’m talking about).

But yes, man. When I think about the discussions I’ve had with some of them, I cringe.

I remember asking one that if he had a sister that was clearly more interested in his family’s business than he was, and also better suited to run it, would he encourage his father to pass it on down to his sister and he said no, that it’s an “abomination.”

That’s literally how some of these guys think, that inclusion and fairness when it comes to transfer of wealth in their families is an “abomination” because by virtue of being male, everything belongs to them.