"Is there anyone you'd like to call?"

A thousand thoughts race through her mind as she holds on to the dining chair, her knees, suddenly seem unable to bear the weight of her rubbery legs.

"Madam? Is there anyone you'd like to call?" He asks again.

She shakes her head in denial, seeing and yet unseeing the three strangers in her dining room. Her grip on the chair shakes as she wobbles on her feet. One man immediately grabs her from behind.

"Take it easy, madam," they chorus as the man helps her to one of the chairs.

They wear a forlorn mien plastered with furrowed frowning faces like people whose inhalation of the putrid smell of stinking fart, affect. Her expression is vacant as she stares back at them, their images so blurring and blending into one another that she thinks it is a dream; a very bad dream that if she shuts her eyes and opens will go away. She does this but the men are still there, staring back at her with solemn faces.

"I'm so sorry..."

The eldest-looking one among them speaks but she cannot understand through the haze that is settling over her soul. She tries to listen to him but deep down she does not believe all he is saying. She does not want to believe it.

He speaks of details that are like a buzz in her brain, of arrangements to be made. But it is all lost on her.

They leave and she is alone in the house she and Nduka rented when they newly got married. The house they had saved for, painted and decorated together. The house they had planned to welcome their child in, together.

She hears her own keening as she collapses on the floor by her front door. Lying on her side, she gathers herself into a ball in defense and denial.

Nduka cannot be dead. He is young and healthy. He is coming home and they are having his favourite soup, ofe onugbu for dinner. Slowly, the words of the men that had left begins to seep into her brain.

...a mistake, the taxi driver hadn't seen him coming.


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osedvgirl:

my sister are you this clueless?! No offence.

I blame the man for marrying her in the first place..

Taaaah! Osu people!

Cholls:
my sister are you this clueless?! No offence.

RexKexMilann:
OP Summarize This Poo, Plenty talk no Dey Full basket .

The title says its all

I'm not osu, but I've never supported the concept since day 1. People should realise that these things should fade away with time! The concept behind this osu thingy is does not conform with the current trends. Its utterly useless in this generation and will sound even more stupid in the next. Igbo's need to grow up!

SINNZ:
I'm not osu, but I've never supported the concept since day 1. People should realise that these things should fade away with time! The concept behind this osu thingy is does not conform with the current trends. Its utterly useless in this generation and will sound even more stupid in the next. Igbo's need to grow up!

My dear its tradition and its smth that may never go away with time

Suigeneris93:



My dear its tradition and its smth that may never go away with time

Its was "tradition" to kill twins and albino's before wasn't it?

At some point in yoruba land, they used to think people suffering from malaria were possessed by "abiku"

Many of these so-called traditions have faded away with time. And this one will surely die a natural death. Even as a christian, do u still believe in such nonsense??

I've even had this argument with my pops before. I told him I'll marry whoever I deem fit be it osu or yoruba or even hausa and if he doesn't support me, he might as well count me out of his family and let me make mine! QED.

SINNZ:


Its was "tradition" to kill twins and albino's before wasn't it?

At some point in yoruba land, they used to think people suffering from malaria were possessed by "abiku"

Many of these so-called traditions have faded away with time. And this one will surely die a natural death. Even as a christian, do u still believe in such nonsense??

I've even had this argument with my pops before. I told him I'll marry whoever I deem fit be it osu or yoruba or even hausa and if he doesn't support me, he might as well count me out of his family and let me make mine! QED.

Few bred and brought up Igbo peeps in the heart of Igboland feel the way you do. No matter the amount of exposure to western influence and xtianity

Suigeneris93:



Few bred and brought up Igbo peeps in the heart of Igboland feel the way you do. No matter the amount of exposure to western influence and xtianity

Okay oo. Its just my opinion.

It has been long eva since i read a novel so i dnt tink I shud start 1 here
no offence jus kidding

OP, please are you the original writer of the above work?

I like us style of writing. Keep it up..

SINNZ:


Its was "tradition" to kill twins and albino's before wasn't it?

At some point in yoruba land, they used to think people suffering from malaria were possessed by "abiku"

Many of these so-called traditions have faded away with time. And this one will surely die a natural death. Even as a christian, do u still believe in such nonsense??

I've even had this argument with my pops before. I told him I'll marry whoever I deem fit be it osu or yoruba or even hausa and if he doesn't support me, he might as well count me out of his family and let me make mine! QED.

You are on a long thing.. Its not just about him not supporting you alone, you will be rejected by your kindred too. There are things beyond our power as human being, things you can't change even if you wish to. Tradition is peoples way of life, you can't just throw it away.

davidflo:
OP, please are you the original writer of the above work?

Yes,y?

phabulous88:
I like us style of writing. Keep it up..

Thanks!

SINNZ:




At some point in yoruba land, they used to think people suffering from malaria were possessed by "abiku"
.

Abikus had more to do with sickle cell anemia I think..

At the OSU thing, people should learn to deal with others on individual merits and stop the stigma. It's unfortunate.

eyinjuege:


Abikus had more to do with sickle cell anemia I think..

At the OSU thing, people should learn to deal with others on individual merits and stop the stigma. It's unfortunate.

Funny enuf, the Igbo society is one of the most egalitarian, if not the only egalitarian society in Nigeria

Lanceslot:
You are on a long thing.. Its not just about him not supporting you alone, you will be rejected by your kindred too. There are things beyond our power as human being, things you can't change even if you wish to. Tradition is peoples way of life, you can't just throw it away.

And you think I don't know this? FYI; culture is a way of life, tradition can be bent or twisted to suit the times.

eyinjuege:


Abikus had more to do with sickle cell anemia I think..

At the OSU thing, people should learn to deal with others on individual merits and stop the stigma. It's unfortunate.

Very unfortunate bro.

Suigeneris93:

Yes,y?

You are good. I'm a fan.

Dis osu thing has better stop

All those dat r rejecting d osu people, dat stigmatized dem, for once let dem put themselves in dese people shoes, how will dey feel if dey r one of dem

I don't know y it's only imo state dat practice such

Obiorathesubtle wats ur problem, don't tell me u r in support of dis

Make dem chop the corpse naw.. Naw oh

davidflo:


You are good. I'm a fan.

Why, thanks dear

Greekgoddess:
Dis osu thing has better stop

All those dat r rejecting d osu people, dat stigmatized dem, for once let dem put themselves in dese people shoes, how will dey feel if dey r one of dem

I don't know y it's only imo state dat practice such

Obiorathesubtle wats ur problem, don't tell me u r in support of dis

I don't tink its only Imo state that has the outcast practise. Its all over. Igboland and even in the western world in countries like India, there's a thriving caste system in which intermarriage. btw d Brahmins(highest class) and d untouchables is discouraged. Any such marriage btw both classes is seen as class suicide almost the same thing as an abomination in Igboland

boboLIL:
Make dem chop the corpse naw.. Naw oh

Lol

why?

Suigeneris93:


I don't tink its only Imo state that has the outcast practise. Its all over. Igboland and even in the western world in countries like India, there's a thriving caste system in which intermarriage. btw d Brahmins(highest class) and d untouchables is discouraged. Any such marriage btw both classes is seen as class suicide almost the same thing as an abomination in Igboland

Anambara don't practice such

But dis is sad


I wish dere is something that could be done

ReignSilva:
why?

Because osu is the class of slaves whom freeborns are not sposd to associate with talkless of marry in Igboland