Igbo marriage anda family life

Abstract

The Catholic bishops of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province in their joint Pastoral Letter to mark the first centenary celebrations of the advent of Catholic Church in Eastern Nigeria call for an intense catechesis as a way of deepening the faith of the huge number of Catholics recorded in the first century of the Church1 . Undoubtedly marriage and family life are some of the institutions at the centre of this intense catechesis. Hence this work has been proposed as a survey of the traditional Igbo marriage and family life with the view of finding out how it can be used as a point of catechesis on conjugal love and ends of Christian marriage.