African Moms: Be Patient with your Unmarried Daughters | Read China Okasi’s Piece for CNN Opinion

                                           

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 Moms everywhere like to ask their unmarried daughters dreaded questions like: Why are you still single? Are you married yet? Anyone catch your eye? Especially around Valentine’s Day. Sure, we’ve seen Carrie Bradshaw agonize over the issue, watched Bridget Jones’ awkwardness around it, heard Amelie’s lamentations au Francais, and we’ve even heard from the lovable Mindy Kaling vis-a-vis her Indian-American perspective.

But, we haven’t heard the modern African woman’s story. Being an unmarried African woman in her childbearing years is like being a manicurist with a hand tremor: very odd and rather tricky. She is expected to marry early and marry well. African mothers, then, are in a deep crisis.

They immigrated to the United States with the hopes that their daughters would get a good education and fulfill the American Dream. But they never considered that, along with having all that modernity, their daughters would, like the rest of America’s young, empowered women, be so “late” in marriage. Granted, African moms are not alone in their hopes. But still, some of them seem particularly affected. What shall they do?

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