Marriage is Night Market
SINGLE AND SENSIBLE With charles ikoabasi Night Market! • How to make the right choice in marriage In Africa, particularly in Nigeria, night always falls with all its force of dread and darkness. Public places like markets become shadowy and creepy …electricity being a scarce commodity and public lighting a novelty. I have some experience in shopping at an African night market. A few years ago, in my naivety, I stopped by Agboju market close to the Communion Church in Lagos, at about 7:30pm to price meat. I remembered how I enjoyed some exotic beef parts as a child so I saw this piece of cow tongue and it was very cheap, so I bought and joyfully headed home to boast to my wife about my shopping skills. Well I guess she didn’t want to dampen my spirit so she kept her opinion to herself. But I later discovered myself, that I had bought rotten meat at “a bargain”. Without the benefit of illumination, I could not have examined what I bought until ...