The Jericho Wall

This is a story of the Igbo Diaspora in America. It is a story of
the cultural con icts that often arise when an Igbo youth falls in
love with, and wants to marry, a non-Igbo. Okocha Anigbo, one
of the two sons of Chief Nat and Lolo Ekemma Anigbo, meets and
falls in love with an American girl, Tatiana Karefa, the daughter
of Edna and Philip Karefa, a jovial and unapologetic Baptist. But
Chief Anigbo, a well-respected Igbo community leader and vocal
opponent of cross-cultural marriages, is bitterly and implacably
opposed to his son’s plan to marry the American girl. Entreaties
from his son, and even from one of the respected elders of the Igbo community, Chikezie
Odogwu, fail to persuade him to change his position. For his part, Okocha sees the traditional and cultural underpinnings relating to the institution of marriage among the Igbo as a veritable Wall of Jericho that needs to be breached, to let the Igbo youth freely
marry from outside the Igbo clan.
In the teeth of Chief Anigbo’s opposition, but with the blessing of Philip Karefa,
Okocha and Tatiana marry.  e denouement comes with the birth of their child.