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ABSTRACT
This project work seeks to clarify the issue of inheritance especially on the women folk. In many traditions, women are included as chattels and not seen as worthy to own their own properties or that of their husbands. Section 42 of the 1999 CFRN has given a clear exposure against the discrimination of the folks in matter of inheritance; man is expected to write his will to clear all the doubt that would usually tend to arise. The case of Anekwe v. Anekwe is a locus classicus for this decision. Thomas Jefferson stated that “all people are born free and equal”. This evaluation seems to reduce the state of constant re-evaluation on the basis of social norms. The manifestation is a constant decimal in form of denial of women’s right to dignity. From inception, customary law has expressed the matter of inheritance to be in the man’s favor and the woman has been treated to be independent of a man. In some customary laws, the women’s property right is discriminatory and arbitrary. In Bini community of The Great Benin Kingdom, the deceased property revolves around the eldest son to take care of his siblings. This research work intends to analyze the customary laws that bother around inheritance for widows and female children in the whole African Countries. Are the laws similar? Are they laws that take pity on women and allow them to wholly take over? African Countries like Soweto, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Guinea – Bissau, Angola, South – Africa, Ghana, Togo, South Sudan, Madagascar, Malawi, and Algeria etc.
