In Nigeria being a single woman is very hard.
One minute you are a baby girl living your life, the next minute everyone is asking you ‘when will you marry?’
In fact once you hit a certain age everyone from your gateman to your boss at work is advising you to go to Shiloh
It doesn’t matter who you are and what you’ve achieved. The only important question is ‘why are you single?’
Before you know it all of your friends start to get married even the ones you thought were single pringles like you
It doesn’t help that their married status seems to come with infinite wisdom and they take it upon themselves to cure the disease that is your singleness.
Nowhere is safe. You go to church to worship your Lord God and Saviour, and some church aunty will ambush you about attending singles fellowship
When you even try to date the men act like they are doing you a favour. “You don’t know you are old abi, I’m just trying to epp your life”
You are 40 and living with your parents epp your own life first.
What of living alone as a single woman?
Before you know it everyone is trying to hook you up, including your Aunty Yejide who has had 7 husbands
You’ve not even found bae but everyone keeps asking you “children nko”?
And it’s not even like you had a problem being single you were perfectly fine but now you can help but wonder…
At the end of the day it’s your life don’t let anyone disturb your peace of mind
So the next time someone should ask you when are you getting into a relationship, tell them…
