GBOLADE couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He stared at his 26-year old daughter, the girl he had spared no expense to train into a very intelligent and promising lawyer, now telling him she was pregnant? When he first heard the news, his heart leapt with joy – his cup, he thought, now runneth over. Marriage, the first in the family. And who might the lucky man be? His daughter avoided looking into his eyes. Then the penny dropped. He must be married.
“She found her tongue immediately. She didn’t want to have an abortion as she’s had two already. She was in love with the man and he has agreed to marry her the tribal way. I was appalled – my daughter – a qualified lawyer talking about marriage to a man who was already legally married? I told her if the man was half the man he should be, he would be the one sitting across my table telling me what he had done to my own daughter.