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Inodu Nwoke: Umuada Way of Disciplining Straying Men in the Community.

In traditional Igbo society, social order and moral conduct were maintained through overlapping networks of kinship, age-grades, and gender-based institutions that worked collaboratively to uphold community values. One of the most significant of these institutions was the Umuada, the collective of daughters born into a lineage or village whose roles extended far beyond ceremonial observances…