Marriage Is a Private Affair

In “Marriage Is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe, this boy named Nnaemeka who was born in Lagos is in love and engaged to a girl named Nene. In Lagos if you father is still alive when your at the right age for marriage he arranges your marriage with a girl who has good character and a Christian background. Nnaemeka’s father has already found a girl for him to marry, so he does not tell his father about him and Nene. But Nene wants him to write to his father and tell him about the situation. Nnaemeka does not believe it would be a great idea to share that information with him so he goes to see his father and talks to him. Nnaemeka tells his father about Nene and how she has a Christian background and is a very nice person, but his father does not accept. Nnaemeka’s father  says to him that “It is Satan’s work,” he does not believe it is right at all. But Nnarmeka still marries Nene and they have two children. His father does not have any part of there life because to he wishes he had nothing to do with Nene or even his son because of the “mistake” he commited by marrying her.
A story similar is that my aunt does not like my cousins boyfriend because of how is and the choices he makes, but she is still with him. They have a baby together and live together even though my aunt did not approve of it.
Here is more info on arranged marriages in lagos http://www.jaguda.com/tag/arranged-marriage/.