Mother is Supreme!

Well, I don't know how you call it in your native languages but in my language, we call it 'nneka' which means mother is supreme.

I'm not trying to be biased here but we need to give our mothers some accolades. Though fathers have done so well providing for us, risking his life to put food on the table, protecting the family from prey. Our fathers need some accolades too.

Meanwhile, I have to deduce that the society atimes are against the female gender. Despite they have been some awareness against the subjugation of the female gender but I think there are still some strands against the female gender.

Why will a woman who has lost her husband and mourned him find it difficult to re-marry? If she re-marries, gossips will begin to spread that she is a whore and can't even wait a bit longer after the demise of her husband. But for the male folks who just lost his wife, can easily re-marry within the space of a year of the demise of his wife and this same society we praise him.

We have so many vices in society against women but I wouldn't want to dive into that. But I would love to talk about a story concerning the above talk.

My mum is one. She has lost her husband since 2004 till now she didn't re-marry. But I will talk about my mum in the nearest future.

A woman who has been an old customer of my mum, came narrating her story.

Mrs. Akpan(not her real name) had married at an early age, this was the period where early marriage was in vogue. Not long after she married, she lost her husband to the cold hands of death. She was still young with two lovely girls. Trust our African society, she has become a second-hand material. The suitors showing interest in her are either giving her the conditions of dropping her two daughters elsewhere and not carrying them along with her. While some that accepted her and her kids are the lazy ones who don't have anything to do to make a living.

Seeing what was happening, she gave up on re-marrying and sacrificed whatever pleasure to train and see her daughters grow with good morals.

She isn't learned but she worked hard to see her children through school. Luckily the first daughter got a visa to travel outside the country after her high school Education while the second has just finished her university Education, currently serving, and is about to be married to a Marine Engineer.

What am I saying, good mothers, are willing to sacrifice everything for their kids? Seeing that the female gender is prey in society, she admitted to training her kids single-handedly. What if she married one of the men who want her to leave her children, who would be an eye on those children knowing what it takes to nurture a girl child in this generation.

Mrs. Akpan is the replica of my mum, don't worry I'm going to give us the gist for another day.

MOTHERS ARE THE BEST...

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