AFRICAN PARENTS CAN BE DRAMATIC AT TIMES

I was discussing with a friend of mine this morning on video call, and I couldn't stop laughing at her when she started complaining to me because the things she said are just hilarious.

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She is a graduate and has graduated from college for the past one year now. I am not certain about the month or the day she graduated, but I know she graduated last year. Yes, she graduated from the college I am attending now.

Since she has graduated, all her set graduating students have not been called for service, nor have they had a statement of result to prove that they are graduates, and our college is not even doing anything to help the matter. She has no choice but to stay with her family until she goes for her national youth service (NYSC).

She called to tell me maybe she can run to my place and stay for some days😂😂, and when I asked her why, she replied that they want to use house chores to kill her in the house, and all she hears about everything in her parents' house is her name whenever they want to get anything done in the house🥺😂.

If you are a Nigerian, you will know how Africans treat their children, especially the ladies. They treat them like housekeepers. I use that name because I don't want to use the name "slave" because they will want you to do literally everything in the house😩. "You have to deal with everything, Abeg; it's your cross to carry it," was my reply to her.

That's why I always wish to stay back at school whenever we have a break, because going home means no rest for you. My mother told me one day that I am an assistance mother. Like, how does that sound? Why will a teenager like me be an assistant mother to my mother's children? Well, that name comes with a whole lot of responsibility because anytime my mom is not available at home, my siblings will come to me for anything they need.

As me and my friend were discussing, she went further to tell how one of her father's uncles came to visit them in their house and asked her why she was in her parent's house after college when the people she gained admission with at the same time were already at their national service place, and that's how her father had to call all their family members to a meeting to beg her daughter to tell them the truth if she didn't graduate. This lady in question just had to start laughing in the meeting because their assumptions were just funny to her, and when she told me about them, I couldn't stop laughing too.

What a dramatic parents!

They didn't know she graduated, and it's just the Nigerian government and the people in charge of college affairs that are delaying her national youth service, but I pray they call her soon so that she will be free from the house she said is choking her😂.