My own African Mother

Surfing the net few weeks ago I came across memes on African mums, and almost all the featured pictures perfectly described my mother. It’s one thing to be born of a mother that is African, females who are unduly ‘extra’ in nature and seem to call defiant children to order in ways that are quite comical. But when you have her double as a religious mother too, then you are bound to have her ‘extras’ in dual-dosage which could be very dramatic. African mums are generally very strict; Want their offspring to be all shade of useful and in turn successful. A child hardly outgrows their ‘scoldings’ and w ould always want to dictate the path to thread for as long as their energy allows them. They are in most cases naïve on modern issues that are akin to the western world, as against their spiritual belief which is in-depth, even if it is not scientifically possible. Which...