This is the fifth year she will bring up the conversation on marriage and her parents are adamant. It would have been different if he were from another Igbo speaking state not Yoruba, a culture alien to them. Therefore, the saying, “what the child is seeing standing, the elder sees it sitting” waxes stronger. Examples continue to disprove this saying: Ibrahim Babangida and his beloved wife, Ndidi “Maryam”, Godswill Akpabio and his wife, Unoma “Ekaette”. Love is universal, the tribe is not a barrier.”But then, you are left to choose:If you should become as obedient as a child who fed from her mother’s breast or the child who faced the odds and overcame the raging storm.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2018 07:07 UTC