Barbaric Customs Against Widows in Africa: A cry for change, by Gift Luckson Some days ago, a widow, Mrs Chika Ndubuisi, was rescued from drinking water used to bathe her husband’s corpse in Awo-Omamma, in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State. The widow was rescued from the hands of her husband’s kinsmen, who attempted to force her to drink the water used in bathing the corpse of her husband to prove her innocence over his death. It was gathered that her husband’s kinsmen allegedly tried to compel her to drink from...