A recent article titled, “African moms: Be patient with your unmarried daughters” has been making the social media rounds amongst African circles online this past week. The writer, China Okasi, a daughter of Nigerian parents, makes two main arguments: that “modern” African women – whom she defines as daughters of African parents living in the western world – have a unique problem. Their problem is the expectation of being married early and married “well,” and that their mothers are in a deep crisis because their daughters are late in marriage. Why are they late in marriage? Because they are “empowered” women who are educated and are searching for love, something presumably their mothers did not have or did not want.
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