Remove It! By Anthony Oliko

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   By Oliko Anthony           Sometimes I pity my future wife, I wonder what she will go through in

the hands of parents and sisters, will she tolerate the inevitable

intrusions? How will she manage them? What of the countless relatives

who look up to my father and to a lesser extent me?  Will she be able

to keep just the right amount of people happy (you can’t please

everyone)? Western influences have made us to live in denial that

families are meant to be nuclear, but as I told a friend who was

wondering what business his uncles had in his choice of wife: “this is

Africa, just about everyone has a stake in your family, if you choose

to go it alone you will definitely suffer the consequences alone, and

trust me in these cases there are always consequences”