“Should all Qu’rans ever burn, we could recreate, did you know that?” A devout Muslim friend tells me, eyes beaming. I’m running like a headless chicken through day 3 of AfriCon, I have 27 hours left to find a husband, I don’t exactly care about the state of Islam at this very second, my brother… I have pressing matters. (*cough cough* human eggs that need harvesting.)
He continues, “the Hafiz are like a living repository of the Qu’ran, they spend their lives memorizing the Holy Book”… “Al Hamdulilah” I quote his favorite word, hoping to shift the convo. Men friends are truly useless. Hello? He knows my type is African & Brilliant. I am at an African Professional Conference. 1+1= what? Instead of helping me strategize & map a new plan, since last night’s speed dating was not exactly fruitful, he wants to tell me random fun facts about the world. I beg, I beg.
Darling reader, you aint never heard of multi-tasking? One can listen to the CEO of Fidelity Bank Nigeria, Dr. Nneka discuss trade & export in Nigeria while also browsing the room for eligible well behaved Bachelors…. There was a season of my life where I didn’t consider marriage (as is) to be favorable for an ambitious African woman, but after wandering in the streets of Atlanta and almost being swallowed whole, I have concluded that marriage is the smaller devil. So… Marry Me? (*wink,wink*)
LawyerLiv & Co. 
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