Do you still want to be an African Boss Babe ? A bomb shell ? Should I toss you away and make a cautionary tale of you at this point or should I be patient , kind and creative in telling your story as it is? Okay let’s go on .

He wants you exclusively. No more taking other clients . No more living in Res either. You get a flat , the latest iphone , prettier dresses , you shoot content in even more expensive hangouts . He’s a businessman and because he thinks you are dumb, he does a lot of business in front of you and you start to learn the lingo . You listen closely , feigning ignorance but you’re listening .

Most varsity students don’t watch how the tide of things are going . Most of the people you study with do not realise they will not have jobs when they graduate . That like most African countries post independence, we’ll be getting to a plateau of zero jobs and overqualifications . You smell it in the air that no one will rush to hire you . That’s why you take a great big gamble : to get off birth control and have a married man’s baby. Back in your small township, former friends and classmates will gossip when you show up with a big bump. They will think that this is finally your fall but they’ve never been known to have foresight. That’s why they are stuck there . You , who have known this man for four years know that so long as his wife doesn’t find out , you can have any and everything . His first request being that you go home and give birth . You go home and give birth to a baby boy .