Equation 1=4 my life as a girl child

My life as a girl child inspired my mum to be blessed for having sixteen children. Sixteen children born to one great woman because we are four Strong Powerful ladies equivalenting sixteen males. Every single daughter is equal for boys, hence the equation 1=4.

My mum had first been married for morethan five years without child until she married my dad. She concieved in her first year of marriage to my dad. Luckily they were two beautiful twins and I am one of them. Then later followed by my two siblings Khayra and Ikilima, all girls.

As we were growing I constantly heard my dad telling my mum that she will weap for not giving birth to a male child in future. I had always tell my mum to keep calm and see what we become because we going to be greater than any boy child eventhough she never took my statements serious

My dad married three women and has seventeen children with them. Two of my mum's co-wives have all given birth to males. Growing in a polygamous family made my mum more depressed always seeing our half brothers because their mothers feel very proud of them because male children would marry and bring home inlaws to worship them. But I always tell my mum we the best to give her that royal retreat not her inlaws. In order to make her feel ok, we took up the challege to break the norms, we assisted in the construction of our new house, we painted and even do little plumbering works in the house. We assisted our mum in her tradings to boost her income so that she never regreted giving birth to us.

In our persuit to aquire knowledged, our dad never discriminated among his children. We are nine girls, eight boys. All of us were given equal opportunity by my dad. Out of the 9 girls, 8 have successfully completed Senior High school; 7 made their way to the tertiary level consisting 1 nurse, 1 midwife, 3 trained teachers, 1 entreprenuer and 1 civil leader.There is one kid sis who has just completed senior high school and is yet to go to the tertiary. With our male counterpart, out of the 8 boys 5 of them have completed senior high with only 3 been able to complete tertiary education; 2 teachers, 1 business executive. So I asked my mum, Do you stil think our brothers are better than us? And you know definately what the answer would be..Its a big NO because we are Super girls.

With persistent percivierance and belief we broke the myth. Yes we did. Now our mums are proud of us. And the surprises keep growing biger when one of my half sisters paid for the expences for her mum to visit the holy city of Mecca in 2014. So I asked my mum again is male child better than the female child? And the answer still stands..NO

In June this year, I made my mum proud by bringing home the Environmental Youth Activist award of the year at the African CleanUp Conference in Nigeria. Upon hearing that she couldnt hide her joy. And I told her prepare for greater things to come because Im still in the climbing stage.

In the begining my mum had it in mind that she would cry over not given birth to a male child but trust me now she is over rejoicing for given birth to 4 beautiful inspirational woman. Now she has come to believe and understand that if the girl child is empowered she can attain her full potential and be more economically supportive than her male counterpart.

We as women have to break the myth because we the best to pick up the challenge. Let tell the world its not disappointing nor embarrassing to give birth to a girl child
Im proud woman
Proud feminist

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