Ngozi Okafor (1944–2019), Mama, sold cloth at the main market in Enugu for forty years, knew the price of every bolt in the city, and cooked the jollof that every party in the family was measured against.
Early life
A trader's daughter, minding the stall by the age of nine. She could do sums in her head faster than the customers could do them on paper.
Family
She married Emeka Okafor in 1966. Five children, raised at the compound.
Stories about them
“At the market she was a lion. At home she was a lion who fed you.” — her granddaughter Chiamaka