ABSTRACT

While Plato acknowledged the fact of role playing vividly bestowed on the different sexes of the human kind by nature, he did not in any way place any gender (male or female) above other. Igbo culture seems to also place definite roles for male and woman without a priori making the human a slave of sort. History has shown the woman as actively involved in political, social and juridical activities in Igboland. The famous Aba women riot is one of the numerous lucid examples. This paper takes an in-depth look into Plato's and Igbo concepts of the women, with specific emphasis on the possibility of using their similarities as a recipe for the solution of national development and problems playing Nigeria.