TRADITION

When a woman marries a man
She is automatically married to the entire family..

Tradition they say can never be changed no matter the level of technology or advancement the world will create. Tradition wasn't of those things that can be easily disregarded especially in an African country like Nigeria.

In many villages in Nigeria, customs and tradition still holds a feater part of human lives over there. They obey the customs and traditions of their land. And example can be the new yam festival or the masquerade festivals.

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So was the case of the people of Umudike kingdom. The held their customs and tradition in high places, never to be toyed with. And so when Obinna had died, Amaka knew was awaited her. She had cried her eyes out, threatening to join her husband in other world if he doesn't wake up from his deep sleep.

All she needs was a sign. Anything at all, even a tinybmove of his finger was enough for her but he didn't even flinch.

If tears could bring back someone from the dead, then I was sure Amaka's tears wouldn't only have brought back Obinna, but he would have come with the company's of the ancestors. She could see her husband's elder brother grinning at her from a distance. She knew what the grin meant.

Maxi Okoro had always made advances towards Amaka, her brother's wife but then the lady always avoided him like a plague but now that her husband, his brother was dead, she would be his.

As custom demanded, if your husband dies then you will automatically be married to your husbands brother. Amaka knew this. And to think that there was nothing she could do about it made it all worse.

Amaka wept.

And so seven days after mourning her husbands as custom demands, she packed her things and placed them in her cleaned shaved head and headed towards the house of her husbands brother. Her hair had been shaved by the women in her village, the same thing happens to any widow.

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Amaka marched towards her husbands brothers house with her belongings but that wasn't the only thing she was with. She carried along a short sharp knife with her, she had a plan.