Nobody Wants To Marry Us, Employers Reject Us, Our Skin Is A Problem – Albinos Crys Out
He was barely one year old when his parents neglected him and parted ways after a serious fight, simply because he was an albino, a rare breed that was contrary to what they had both expected. Forty years after, Mr. Abdullahi Obafemi, has yet to recover from the painful knowledge that his parents abandoned him. They tossed him between each other until his grandmother, who was living in northern Nigeria, took over his custody. Obafemi is still haunted by his history, the humiliation and rejection he continues to suffer from the public daily.“I am my parents’ only child. I learnt their marriage ended abruptly the moment my mother gave birth to me as an albino. In fact, I learnt my mother screamed,Eh! Afin ni mo bi(Ha, I gave birth to an albino) when she saw me. “While they were busy denying me and fighting over who would take care of me, my grandmother took me away from them,” Obafemi said with a note of sadness. Growing up was also not easy for Obafemias he h...
