Sunday, September 1, 2024

Stay With Me

 Fiction by Ayobami Adebeyo


This story, set in Nigeria during the end of the twentieth century, gave me and interesting glimpse into as culture I'm completely unfamiliar with.

At its heart, it's simply the story of Yejide and Akin, a married couple navigating though the crippling despair of infertility until the strain breaks them apart. But the cultural aspects of the strongly patriarchal, polygamous traditions in Nigeria, along with the political unrest of the time make everything worse for Yejide, and for Akin too, as it turns out.  


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