Vol. 5, Issue 5, Part C (2019)

Abstract
This work is designed to investigate the ethnographic background of the place of women in the Okada Region. The work shall begin with introducing the people of Okada district in the present-day Ovia North East Local Government Area, as bini people who trace their origins to the ancient Benin Kingdom in history. The work examines women in the region, particularly that they are often subjected to practices that degrade and diminish their humanity at each stage and prevalent traditional practices in some areas, like marriages, divorce, property ownership, intestate succession. The work uses the empirical research methodology, and a self-report questionnaire based on oral evidence is designed to be used in this study which is adopted from about 15 communities such as Okada, Utesse, Egbetta, Uhen, Ogbesse and the other communities that comprised Okada Region within the old Iyekovia district of Benin Kingdom. This work concludes by recommending the way forward for a woman in the realm of a male-dominated world which does not seem very conscious of the subjugation and outright degradation which women go through in the name of native customs despite the encomiums men pour on their beauty and allure.