THE CHANGE STORY
It started several years back when Chidinma was still small and playful. She was born to a man with quite a gentle mien and an equally gentle mother. They were good parents. Chidinma took advantage of their gentleness to become spoilt. As she entered secondary school, her spoilt character was becoming more evident. Other students began to notice and started calling her names. She got hardened and hit them back with her own verbal insults. She got into a few fights that other classmates promptly stopped. Some teachers noticed her character and decided to thoroughly discipline her. They used cane on her to drive discipline into her head. She adjusted in a few ways but began to devise strategies to escape constant flogging. Living and schooling in a rural place, some call it countryside, it was easy to come up with excuses to escape discipline. She often hide in the school farm until the teachers wanting to flog her cool down and face other issues and then sneak back into...