One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite and elaborate on the past, about how they saw life and their current situation. Obinna is a devoted and straightforward stay-at-home husband and father, married to a formidable businesswoman. His friend Eze challenges this quiet little life in a society where men are subject to the dominance of influential women. This is an easy-to-read short story in which the relations between men and women are upside-down, allowing us to realise even more about how some situations of everyday life should not be considered normal.
“There’s no real treatment for prostate issues. Modern medicine has simply ignored the health problems that affect only men. Did you know that all the major medical research uses women’s bodies as the standards? So the dosage of most medicines we take are based on women’s bodies, which are of course smaller than men’s bodies, so we might actually be undertreating ourselves.”