WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE GIRL FROM THE OTHER SIDE?
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE GIRL FROM THE OTHER SIDE? I got posted to the north for my service year. My people cried, begged and began to call my nonexistent uncles, aunties, somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody in NYSC to change my posting. Somehow they all forgot about me. While the drama was going on – and really it was based on genuine concern and love, I gently packed my ‘kaya’ and prepared myself for one year of adventure in God’s own land without the nerve racking gaze from my folks. Suddenly, as though someone was prompted, they remembered to ask me what my thoughts where. This was my response, ‘are people living there? (Jigawa) Yes. Is God there? Yes. Therefore if people are there and God is there, then I am safe. I would be afraid if God wasn’t there. But as long as God is there, I am cool and I am going.’ That is my general attitude to life and the unfamiliar. It's the same attitude I had towards marriage and see where it landed me - in the han