MY MOTHER was approaching the age of ninety years when she told me the story of how my father snatched her from her first husband. I was 70 years old. This revelation was one of many that came inside the flow of almost daily mobile phone conversations between Mother (in Adoka) and I (in Abuja) since Father’s death fifteen years earlier. Mother died when I was seventy-three, leaving a huge gap in my life which I filled with fond recollection of the stories she had narrated to me about the childhood of her Ad’Obum [My Father In-Law – I’m my grandfather reincarnated] who arrived in her life as the eighth child but the first to breathe and cry.

Author: Ad’obe Obe

Language: English