CHAPTER SIX
…“He, who finds a wife, finds agood thing and obtains favour from the Lord”-Proverbs 18:22. Though Elorm knew very little about this, it was time to get a wife. While in Benin,Afinor who was a girl Elorm wanted to marry had finished technical school and with directions to Koutonou, she managed to travel all the way to see Elorm.She was the daughter of Nutakor; a business man based in the city.Afinor was light skinned with naturallyngifted long hair almost brushing her back, long sexy legs with incredibly nice gastrocnemius muscles, and worked with a construction firm in Accra.
The two had planned to get married once Elorm returned to Accra. But then Afinor was the hot, out-going party type chick, who would not miss a party or a friend’s get together for anything. She went to all the clubs there were in, Labadi. Women like these were always going to be expensive and difficult to keep.Elorm recalled events of his village,how all the men had problems with their marriages and in order to prevent this he would not even attempt sealing marriage with Afinor.
With time, he got to know the people around and always went to buy bitters from a beer bar across from the road, opposite the huge Apollo
Restaurant.A number of young ladies lived there and every time, they passed in front of Elorm’s shop and he would say to himself, “these are wife materials”.Dogbe was the owner of the bar; he was a sprayer, who did finishing works on ceilings, and cars. His wife Daavi virtually ran the bar, and had brought to live with her, five girls from the village.
Vic, a young pretty twenty five year old ewe-speaking girl, who
sold toffees on a table top just in front of the bar, was one of the many
girls, whose fathers did not cater for. Her mother single handedly raised her in a small village called Botoku in the Volta Region-Ghana and sent her to Dogbey in the city to help learn some trade; hair dressing, tailoring
and other.She found herself on a table top selling toffees and chewing gum which patrons at the bar bought to keep their mouths freshened each time they visited the bar to have a good drink, Elorm occasionally met her whenever he also went for some tots of bitters.
The two struck acquaintance.Dogbe as protective as other parents, would beat the hell out of Vic if she ever went out and reported late; he
would have none of that.Girls of Vic’s age and below in the area had corrupted themselves.It was common to see girls as young as fifteen, with babies strapped behind their backs, and still pregnant,looking all unkempt and with water running down the nostrils of their babies.
Marriage was not a priority for girls there, just pre-marital sex and
enjoyment of life. Teenage pregnancies, teenage motherhood and prostitution among young girls were endemic.It was for this reason; Dogbe would not take it lightly whenever Vic reported home late.
In May 1987, Elorm took a contingent to Botoku, where he performed the
traditional marriage rites and brought Vic back to Accra. He had .found a
good thing, a wife…............to be continued
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