Mother’s Sunday: Gauging The Soludo Feeling

I love telling stories, this is why I listen hard during important conversations. Soludo lost his mother at age 8 in the heat of a horrific civil war. This is what Fela would refer to as “double wahala”_ — a tragic situation that increases appreciation with absence. 

If Soludo could, he would surely love to bring Mgbafor back to life. In all his stories about motherhood, he likens the absence of a mother as the silence within a family when an applause is required, for none can actually clap with one hand. 

Mothers are the wholeness we seek in every home. In fact, they are that integral part that keeps the home afloat, without them we merely clutch on straws and may gradually sink into disarray except the divine intervenes. 

As an assurance for his short-lived enjoyment of motherly love, the heavens have compensated “Nwa Mgbafor” with the beautiful Chinonye (God is with us) — and indeed she has been a Comforter, like all true mothers would in every home. 

Soludo calls her “Queen”, a confession in commitment to the fact that Mothers must reign as Queens in the Kingdom of our Homes. 

Happy Mother’s Day to all Our Queens Militant and Triumphed. 

– Mazi Ejimofor Opara writes from Awka, Anambra State