The moment Maa walked into our house with red rimmed eyes and puffy face I knew their was trouble, just that I had no idea how deep the trouble was this time around. She put her head on Ammi's laps and cried for the better part of twenty minutes, raising up only when the tears decided to cease on their own.
"Mummy Manal I'm in trouble, Ramadan's father is about to kill me"
"Calm down, what happened"
"Hmmmm" she drew in air "He's taking a second wife!"
"What!"
"I'm serious, he just told me today and he said the wedding is next month and I got a slap because I asked him why"
"This is not fair"
"What is not fair is marrying a woman with a doctorate degree, she's a lecturer at Federal university of technology Yola. So he likes educated women? This was a man who stopped me from furtheri
