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s!" a voice said loudly. That was my mother, a s

new as it was customary for every young girl in my village to marry at the age of adolescence. My mother was probably 15 when she married my fif

to marry a young child. This is predominantly common in a village were the poor aren'

young age of 15, in fact she should have been married earlier than that but because she ran away countless times

have the willpower to oversee his farm, thereby causing him to loose his source of wealth. Most of his children didn't care about this as they were only interested in spending all he had. Le

rule ended where everyone was antici

n my mama's hut. We had 6 huts in my father's compound, one

wife turn to spend the night with Adio, they would prepare a sumptous meal and sleep in Adio's hut. You cou

d tell, she had the most children for him, the

second wife has two children for him, my mama has almost a football

child of my mama, and I have three younger brothers and a sister. Tobi and Tope are twins and only two years old, you can't imagine the stress of bathing and dressing them

owl outside with some warm water Mama had pr

me from twins are named Taiwo and Kehinde as thus, these are Tobi and Tope first names. My mama was fondly called "Iya beji" which means the mother of

he local sponge and the soap my Mama bought at the market the previous day. As I was don

ld" I said angrily as she refused to let go of Mama. This

she kept crying with Mama laughing as this was Kehinde us

quiet, see your mate Taiwo who didn't give

d. Brother Daso was only 13 year old when a white man came to our village and he travelled to England to be an appre

ear the "aso oke" a tradition

birthday is in a month's time if you wear yours, Kehinde would laugh at you" I said. He looked like

out to the backyard to assist with w

this would hasten up the preparat