Chukwuebuka

“You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know
that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men
sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six
wives once. I have none now except that young girl who knows not
her right from her left. Do you know how many children I have
buried--children I begot in my youth' and strength? Twenty-two. I
did not hang myself, and I am still alive. If you think you are the
greatest sufferer in the world ask my daughter, Akueni, how many
twins she has borne and thrown away. Have you not. heard the song
they sing when a woman dies?
"'For whom is it well, for whom is it well?
There is no one for whom it is well.'
"I have no more to say to you.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart