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Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie Releases 2009 Wedding Photos To Honour Late Mum

Popular Nigerian Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie has explained how western weddings marginalise the mother of the bride as she posted photos from her wedding.Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie Releases 2009 Wedding Photos To Honour Late Mum

The Orange prize for literature winner in an Instagram post on Wednesday 2nd June revealed the photos were in honour of her late mum.

In her post, she explained that western weddings see the father of the bride being recognised while the mother of the bride is only seen.

However in her 2009 wedding, she changed the narrative as both parents walked her down the aisle, and instead of the usual bride and father dance, she danced with her mum.

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“I have always felt that western wedding traditions sideline the mother of the bride the father walks the bride down the aisle, the father has the first dance with the bride, often the father gives a speech while the mother doesn’t. ⁣”

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Our wedding, many years ago, was small and lovely, just as we wanted it. I asked family and friends not to post any photos publicly. I wanted privacy. But my need for privacy is now superceded by my desire to publicly honour the rare and wonderful woman I called my mother. And I hope this perhaps inspires any young women (and men) out there who are questioning any kind of convention.

Before the wedding, I decided that both my parents would walk me down the aisle. And I decided that my first dance would be with my mother. My father, who I often teasingly called DOS for “Defender of Spouse,” was very supportive. He wasn’t much of a dancer – I inherited his unrhythmic genes – but my mother was. And my mother’s joy on that day was a gorgeous glowing thing.⁣

Convention is something made up by somebody and then repeated by others. If convention feels wrong for you, if your skin bristles and your spirit stalls at the thought of doing something “the way it is done,” then stop and act.⁣ We can make changes. We can try and craft small slices of the life we want. ⁣

We can unmake convention to make things more just, more complete, more beautiful.⁣

Not everyone will be happy with you because it is human nature to try and conserve things as they are, but your spirit will feel full, and there is nothing more meaningful than knowing you have been true to yourself”.

Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie lost her mother Grace Ifeoma Adichie, on Monday 1st March in Awka, Anambra state.

Mrs. Adichie’s demise came more than eight months after the author had lost James Adichie, her father, who died after a brief illness.

 

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