In an article “Tradition of same gender marriage in Igboland,” published in the Nigerian Tribune, Lagos: Friday, June 19, 2009, Leo Igwe wrote: “One of the contentious issues in the debate over homosexuality and same sex marriage is whether a marriage between persons of the same gender is totally alien to African culture and tradition. Those opposing same sex marriage have continued to argue that same gender union is foreign to Africa. On the contrary, I have tried to draw their attention to the fact that there is a strain of the same gender marriage in African tradition particularly in Igboland.”
Contrary to Leo Igwe's opinion, there is absolutely no tradition of same gender marriage in Igbo land. One would normally ignore the article if Leo Igwe had not tried to drag a whole Igbo nation into his pseudo-philosophical exegesis
