MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER AND MY LEGACY
by
M
KELECHI A NYADIEGWU
y name is Kelechi Anyadiegwu. I am
the daughter of Engnr. Emeka
Anyadiegwu and Dr. Kiki
Rita Edozie Anyadiegwu.
My mother is the daughter of Honorable
Justice Monica Okafor Edozie, my
grandmother and the first daughter of Mr.
Thomas and Mrs. Agnes Okafor known
as Mama. I am a twenty-year-old college
student; I don’t know yet where I’m
going in life! But I know that I am
from a long line of great women and
men.
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My great grandmother was someone that I did not
have the pleasure of meeting in her last years, but I know
a lot about her from my mother and aunties who always
tell wonderful stories about her. According to my
mother she was a loving woman; a woman
who loved her children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren all the same. She was
very industrious and religious. Although she
is gone now I know her memory lives through
our family and her legacy. I’m confident that
her spirit will help guide me in life. As I said, I
don’t know where I’m going in life, but I know
that with great women like Mama guiding me, I
will be okay.
In Her Own Voice: AGNES OKAFOR TELLS HER STORIES
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