Shey you're gonna be my baby mama?

The term Baby mama is fast gaining grounds in the Nigerian entertainment and public sectors, so i heard to take time off to investigate this trend and its meaning.

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We were all course-mates until one day Kemi just emerged with a gradually protruding tummy. What happened to you? Is it a tumor or are you just overfed? These questions kept running through our minds and even some more daring folks went ahead to ask Kemi. Anyway, someone like me would never bother to ask, i would rather prefer to turn them over in my mind and keep my opinions to myself, Kemi's tongue lashing was not what any sane person would willingly ask for.

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We were all seated under

a huge tree in the love garden, the ladies chatted away loudly and as their discussion moved from interesting to boring, i decided to keep myself occupied with all these gossips on Nigerian blogs. One thing that caught my attention was the increasing number of beautiful single mothers, some of whom never bothered to marry before childbirth, while others who married soon became dissatisfied with their marriages and decided to quit. These women, mostly celebrities are not just strong, but also independent.

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Amidst all the petting and dotting around her, Unlike her true self, Kemi eventually smiled at us and declared rather confidently 'you people should leave my baby alone o'. Everyone stopped in their tracks, gradually i lifted my head from the screen of my phone and for a fleeting moment stared at her with a face painted with surprise. baby keh? I murmured to myself. After we had recovered from the shock induced by her announcement, next came the session when we had to request for the identity of the Baby's father. Father keh?

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I pretended to read through my phone, while i listened to Kemi as she struggled less confidently to explain her status in the life of the Baby's Father.
Suddenly a section of one of the articles i was pretending to read caught my attention. It was an interview with a top male celebrity who had 3 kids without having ever been married. The interviewer had asked him, so who is the mother of your Babies? He replied rather happily, 'it's not one Woman, each of my babies have a different mother'. Shooo! My eyebrows shot up in surprise, three different mothers keh? The reporter then asked if he planned on marrying any of them, then he replied evasively that 'well....for now they are just my Baby Mama'. Choi! so Kemi too is now a baby mama; a title meant for single mothers, whose only reason for getting pregnant was a mere promise by their man that he would marry them someday.

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Suddenly an idea occurred to me, as i lifted my head and broke my long silence and declared with a loud voice, 'Kemi, you are going to be his Baby Mama!'.


Writer's Bio

Onyeoziri Favour is a graduate of the University of Lagos. He is passionate about writing and literature, and also an avid reader and writer, his poems have appeared in several international literary journals. He is a staunch supporter of Chelsea FC of England and also is the proud administrator of his blog favour-onye.blogspot.com
Email: Favouronyeoziri@gmail.com