‘When brothers fight to death a stranger inherits their father’s estate’ – The Mail & Guardian

‘When brothers fight to death a stranger inherits their father’s estate’ – The Mail & Guardian

It is the Nigerian novelist and poet, Chinua Achebe, who opines this chilling Igbo adage that, “he is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger — because when brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate — that a kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone — and that the White man is very clever — he came quietly and peaceably with his religion.  “We…