WHY FATHER'S DON'T GIVE OUT THEIR DAUGHTERS IN MARRIAGE TO SOMEONE THEY DON'T KNOW VERY WELL IN IGBO LAND

Agunna was once married to a wife wose name was Ujunwa. This woman was very beautiful, but her greatest fault was that she was too lazy even to cook the food she herself would eat. To her, everyday was a day of joy, merriment, laughter and continuous sleeping. She would not find her husband's farm and would not have worked on it even if she could.

Agunna and Ujunwa had a daughter. The name of this damsel was Adamma. From her speech, even to the manner of her walking, Adamma took after her mother. Like her mother too, beauty and laziness were her Chief characteristics. Adamma's beauty kept many young men awake at night. Everybody in the town acknowledged that she was the most beautiful woman alive. The parents treated Adamma with maximum tenderness until she grew into a lady. The house of Agunna was never for one single moment, without young men who came to woo this paragon of beauty.

Whenever suitors came to Agunna's houe to ask for Adamma, the first thing this girl would ask the father was whether the young man had a fair in complexion and whether he was well-to-do. A negative answer to any of these questions would automatically disqualify the suitor in the eyes of Adamma. Her father told her how happy he would be if she marries one who was upright in character. He said, he would not mind very much whether the prospective suitor had money or not, and whether he was a farmer or a clerk in the office.

One evening, he called his daughter and warned her against reliance on the accumulation of wealth, and tried to make her realize that a rich man today, by dint of hard-luck, became hopelessly poor the following day, and that a laggard could be favoured by a turn of events in his life. 'When a young handsome man looses his money, his love for the wife fades away '. He said. But the daughter did not heed to the warnings.

Like many could say, that the world is deep, deeper than people could imagine. One day...
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