MOTHER-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
Anita leaves her 4months old baby, Dennis, in his cot and goes to the kitchen, puts plates of egusi soup and eba and water on a tray and takes to Mother-in-law, who is in the living room watching TV. 'I hope you enjoy your lunch, mama', she says with a nervous smile and curtseys as she puts the tray on the table. 'Thank you', Mother-in-law murmurs and begins to eat. Anita walks to the door leading to her bedroom and watches mama nervously from behind the door. She hopes mama will like her food. She tried to cook it the way mama liked it: lumpy egusi with bitter leaf. As Mama swallows the first ball of eba and nods her head, Anita knows she has passed the exam once again and goes into her bedroom. From the very first day she met Mama, till now, she has felt like a perpetual exam candidate. The tense smile on Mama's face as she said Good morning to her on the morning of her first arrival in her in-laws house as Kenneth's fiance, and Kenneth's too ch