A Chronicle Of Polygamous Brouhaha -5

This is a story of another uneducated man that got entangled in the web of polygamy because the first wife could not give him sons. He got the sons but they didn’t enjoy their pleasant lives because of envy and jealousy from the first wife.

Edema got married to afule and they had two daughters. He was not an educated man but a farmer, rearing goats and cows, after so many years of waiting he decided to pick a second wife Osa.

Within a year, Osa delivered a baby boy. Edema’s joy knew no bounds as he celebrated the birth of his first son Umah in a grand way. As the years goes by, Osa delivered the second son Nuga. When Osa became pregnant with the third child. She was always sick and when the time for her to put to birth came she was not feeling anything. 

She overstayed the time for normal nine months, everybody were worried including the husband. He was forced to go and search for the cause of the delay in delivery and he was told the first wife, Afule was responsible because she was jealous. After some sacrifices were performed, Osa delivered another baby boy Ojea.



The children all grew up and Afule’s daughters got married but the first daughter Isi could not conceive, her sister Ebe gave birth to lots of children. Later on, Edema passed away and the family were not left with only the mothers.

One Sunday morning, Umah came back home and his own mother was not around. He was hungry and asked Afule to give him food. After eating the food, he went to sleep. By the time the mother came back and asked of him. She decided to check him in the room and discovered that he’s gone- dead. 

He was rushed to the hospital and the doctor certified him dead on arrival. Accusing fingers were on Afule but he denied ever poisoning the food she offered him.

Later, Ojea who was serving his master in the city was sent packing over trivial issue. He came back to the village without any prospect. But within two weeks he ran mad. Till today, he is still roaming the street as a mad man. 

Polygamy is a dicey game.


Nuga, had been bed ridden for almost two years after surviving fatal accident that almost took his life. Everywhere, Osa and some family relatives had gone to, to find out the cause of her children’s doom always point at the first wife, Afule. Even, Ona was not spared from her matrimonial home because she was turned to a punching bag by the husband, to the extent the man threw her down from a three storey building which impaired her hearing today.

The trauma that her children had gone through and are still going through affected Osa that most times she will be talking to her self and always absent minded.


Polygamy is not a ludo game. Most wives go diabolical and even collect witchcraft just to dominate in the family.