A friend of mine came to me excitedly. Her Igbo father has finally accepted that her living on my own won’t lead to her being kidnapped. Or to men not wanting to marry her because she no longer lives with her parents. He has been properly schooled and the patriarchy that he was brought up with, slowly evaporating into thin air.

She’s so happy and can’t believe her luck. She told me she half expected him to scream in Igbo, “where do you think you are going to? Will you hop into the next Uber (pronounced “Uba”) and come home, osiso!

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