The drama was rehearsed long before the sudden demise of my father, mista Thompson the emperor!

It all started when father decided to marry mama Akanni after maami agba. maami agba was father’s first wife. Maami agba indisputable indomitable butch but with a queenly gait and subtle beauty ruled the household like a personal fiefdom. Only she could withstand and overrule the emperor’s decision. She could look the face of father eyeball to eyeball without flinching or lowering her gaze in con confrontation…

She was the chief accountant of the household and was frugal with the finances. It was a logical thing that maami agba should hold that position. It was common knowledge that she was the backbone of father’s success. Long before she married father, she had been a contending force in cocoa business and had been an explosive success that launched father to the league of success to the very prosperous. It was as if they were two missing pieces in each other’s puzzle.

It was said that maami agba was very formidable, gregarious and daunting in the pursuit of her business to the admiration of male colleagues most who sought for her hand in marriage. She had to have rebuffed them all. She was said to have sworn never to be in polygamy!

The fragrance of maami agba success was so attractive that it was a stiff competition between father and other cocoa FARMERS .BUT father won because of maami agba’s resolve to marry  a young man little did she know what the future had in stock for her in mista Thompsons house.

Maami agba only left the business to tend to her motherly role when she fell into labour on one of their numerous business trips. She became a non-active partner but an adviser because her business judgment seldom failed. She who it was who continued to show father the smoke that led him to the fire.

Then one day, father with some relatives brought in mama Akanni as father new bride. Maami agba was speechless! True, maami agba had always anticipated that but she never thought father would betray her. You see, maami agba had given birth to six girls in succession. Father and his relatives were concerned about the name of the family going into extinction. Therefore, they insisted that father should marry a new wife.

Reining in her anger but concealed deep vexation, maami agba reluctantly accepted mama Akaani; afterwards, maami agba became recalcitrant and neutral. After one or two business blunders, the calculating mista Thompson rallied important people in the business to help pacify maami agba.

When mama Akanni came in the tempo of the household changed. Aaaaaah how do I describe mama Akanni the capricious second wife of Mista Thompson?