Reminiscing the Contributions of Late Mrs. Esther E. Nnaji to her Society
Mama was a very competitive
tycoon, who had her finger prints in different businesses. She was originally
known all over the community and in the neighbourhood as one who traded on dried
fish; but that was not the only trade she knew well. Mama kept a food shop for
few years in the 1970s. It was told that she was a good cook; referring to
this, people called her ‘Oji maggi agwor ji’. She knew, perfectly, how to
strike balance amidst condiments. I am a testimonial to this. It was from food
vending that she moved to her permanent business. From the sale of fish, mama made
the money she used to train her children and made sure that they were well
positioned based on the dominant craftsmanship prevalent at their time. With
her unceasing efforts, I was able to go through my university education.
It is not exaggerative to assert that mama was the richest home-based mother in the entire community throughout the 1980s and early 90s. To involve people around her in the craving of her God-given riches, mama gave horses to her husband people and also to her paternal brethren. In those days, horses evoked conviviality and proved explicit show of affluent more than cow. People who killed horses were accorded with great honour in their societies; mama was esteemed likewise.
This affluent
found around mama inspired the villagers to name one of their female
masquerades after mama. There she lavished her money illustriously; for she was
obliged instinctively to throw money each time the masquerade performed. She
was deep in this waste until her later days when she finally embraced Christ in
2005, after my first publication.
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