It's all known that Africans value posterity so much, the greatest culture of mankind is to beget children that will continue their lineage and it becomes worrisome if one fails to achieve this.
A Nigerian man has shared his challenges of being the only son and the demands from his father to beget a male child who would continue their family's lineage.
According to him, he married his wife who could only give him four girls before the pressure from his father began, he demanded he married a second wife since the first can't bear male children.
He married the second wife who still ended up giving birth to two daughters, so confused that his father almost pressured him to marry a third wife, which he rejected because handling two women in his home was becoming tedious.
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He continued that, the pressure from his father continued until his demise, which gave him much relief, but it still worries him that he doesn't have a male child and he will be the last of his generation, he also said he had considered adopting but he doesn't know how well it will appeal to his wives.
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"I have lots of thoughts in my head. I used to be married to just one wife and I was happy with that. We got married and have 4 girls. My father who's late now wouldn't hear of it. He said I'm his only son and I needed to have a male child to continue his lineage. He was an educated man so he knew a woman has nothing to do with the gender of a child. He said, since I didn't have any luck in giving my wife a male child maybe some other woman would.
He encouraged me into taking a second wife which I did but I still didn't have any luck with her. She gave me two female children. He almost made me take a third which I refused. Handling two women alone is difficult enough, a third would have been impossible.
He passed away after a few years and no one bothered me about it again. Strangely, my mother doesn't have any problem with I not having a male child. But it's beginning to bother me these days. I've been thinking, 'what if I died tomorrow, so no one would be here to continue our family lineage'. Maybe I should just adopt a boy child that would bear my name. But how would my wives take it? These are the things I think about and exactly what I'm sitting here and thinking about right now."
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Patriarchy is one of the problems of Africans, when people still have and maintain the notion that female children are of no value and can't continue a lineage.
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Source: Gossip.naija.ng