AS WIVES RELOCATE ABROAD, UNFORTUNATE BACHELORS RECREATED IN OUR CLIME. The ageing African husbands and father is facing a silent revolt, a gang ups against them by wives and children who have chosen to remain abroad. If you are observant enough, you will notice them in markets – an ageing, cosmopolitan gentlemen haggling with the market women pricing pepper, fish, okro, vegetables, oils etc. Their age, generally 50 and above. At other times, you see them in the high brow areas of major cities doing their shopping at the mall. If they are no longer in paid employment, they spends much of their time at the club houses. There are clubs patronised by such elderly who live alone. They lives a relatively quiet life at home – no chattering or running around of children. Except, perhaps, for the occasional female visitor, that is for those still with libido, the house environment has an unnerving serenity. ...