Onisegun – Another Interesting Story

It was after marriage that Alake knew the truth in the maxim that a house full of wealth and affluence is always full of trials. Her childlessness, while it elicited pity from some town’s-people had provoke scorn from others who see her bareness as a failure and the manifestation of the displeasure of the Gods with her, which was leaving the town with no apparent heir.

The king had to bow to pressures from the chiefs and the elders of the town to marry a second wife; this broke Alake’s heart, but she has to face the inevitable. She had to wait patiently and hope fervently that the new wife would be peace loving and not troublesome.  The chiefs contested amongst themselves to become the father-in-law to the King and many nubile young women were paraded before the King until Abeke the daughter of the Balogun was chosen.

Abeke was a rather stout lady with wide hips and enormous breasts, the town’s-people believed that the breasts were that big because nature designed for the owner to have many children. Abeke was the last daughter of the high-chief Balogun. She was badly pampered and was used to having her way all the time. Abeke could be saucy when she feels like and she considered herself one of the most fashionable young girls in the town. Many young suitors considered her too rude and they were not surprised when the King chose her as a queen, “She can only be a queen”, they thought, “Since no man is good enough for her”.

Abeke has been to the city and she considered most of the practices of the town primitive. She considered the king too old for her, but she was prevailed upon by her father who convinced her that no suitor can be better for her that the king himself. She grudgingly agreed and the wedding day was fixed.
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Written by Adeogun Jerome Odebode