Thanks for sharing your story.

It seems your mother was an outlier who chose not put up with foolishness.

May her memory lasts for ever.

Classism trumps everything in many parts of Nigeria and it's worst abroad where Nigerians live and work.

Before the 1980----many women were used to train/support their brothers. Women married and their husband trained their brothers. How can these men be against their pay check? What happened to your mom happened to many Nigerian women before the social media.

I wrote a story about my aunt. I didn't know she was older than her affluent brother until the day she died. She worked her ass off for her "younger brother" to look good.

Thank God, my brothers work hard for themselves.