heroine

GN: The message and the environment which forces a heroine to shoulder the load. Questions of succession, gender roles, and traditional versus modern ideals surround the story.

Mama J is the heroine of the OJB Okungbowa story: she gave him three more years to live despite the betrayal she had suffered. There are not too many persons like her out there. Take heart, Madam. Life is like that.

She was their heroine. Her son was begging her, saying "mummy please come back because of me." But she replied him; "I am going to marry another man and have other children."