My mother spent her early years in Kaduna, the Northern part of the country where she learned to speak Hausa quite fluently. After her primary school days, she moved back to Ibadan with her parents and sisters, and brothers and went to boarding school in Ilesha.
After leaving secondary school she began working for the ministry where she remained until she met her husband, A. K, aka Tony K/Baba Akofa. She married him in December 1973 and soon after gave birth to her firstborn, G.V. Not very long afterward, she decided to give up her job to become a full-time housewife. I wish I could say that Mummy was a doctor, a lawyer, a bumpkin billionaire a philanthropist who changed the world but she wasn't.
However, she was a knight in shining armor who gave up all her dreams to raise her four children and equip them with what they needed to survive in life and live it to the fullest. She was more than a doctor, a lawyer, a bumpkin billionaire, or a philanthropist; she was a heroine, our heroine who was there for us every moment of our lives.
We are proud to say we had the Best Mummy in the whole world and she will forever be alive in our hearts.