30/09/2026
A man in Ohafia k!|led his own kinsman. By accident,
So he ran to his father's people. Because That's who you belong to.
But they gave him up. Handed him over to the dead man's family.
So he went to his mother's people instead.
And they hid him.
That, they say, is why Ohafia belongs to its mothers.
Now they tell that story more than one way, and nobody agrees which is true. But what the place is today nobody argues about that.
A man there hardly train his own son. He trains his sister's son. And when he dies, what he owned goes to that same boy, not to his own children.
If a child misbehaves, it's the mother's family that gets called. Not the father's.
You can marry from your father's side. But your mother's side, never.
A woman can own land there. And the Eze’s, the men who rule, are chosen through the mother.
Everywhere else in our land, the first thing they ask you is who your father is. There, they ask about your mother.
Have you heard this before?
What version of the story did you hear?
Any Ohafia here?
