African females would be type-cast from birth and instructed in manners of learning subservience, as is the case of human behavior in most societies, as strict and hindering gender roles determined the path of their life (Dennis 69).

As young girls, African females developed very closely with their mothers and would acquire the constricting elements that continue the ongoing chain of events. The young females would take part in the daily duties of their mother and learn the oppressive traits, as did their female ancestors before them. They would perform backbreaking chores for the tribal family in preparati

uture generations of young men and women (Achebe).

ties and introducing new forms of oppression not congruent with the African person's way of life.

The religions of African tribal cultures conceived that the position of women within their society was complementary to that of men. The societies of early African tribes believed men to be spiritually superior to women, fashioning powerful gods in the form of man, in opposition to peaceful female deities in further attempts to have total control. "The religions of many Nigerian societies recognized the social importance of female gods of fertility and social peace, but women were also associated with witchcraft which appeared to symbolize the potential social danger of woman exercising power uncontrolled by men (Terborg 22)." African women, conditioned to be subservient and upholding of the social integrity of the tribe, were still only considered to be fulfilling their obligations to the men and oftentimes the arduous efforts and work performed by the women of the tribe would not even be considered as arguable or an issue at all. Duties that in American society today are!

The same held true for the young males of the tribe who performed male specific duties with their fathers at times. They would be also negatively conditioned to become dominant over females of the tribe as they worked ceaselessly with the seasons crops and other provisional duties. Through stories and various teachings, young African girls and boys learned were conditioned to become knowledgeable in the roles that are preset for them. Young men were taught to provide for their family and to exhibit dominance over their female counterparts. Young females were taught to respect men and were primed to the future of one day marrying and appeasing their own husband and following the same guidelines of their female lineage, so once again creating another reoccurrence in the seemingly endless

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