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"Your mother never wanted to remarry?" "Even if she wanted to, I don't think she would, because of me. I want her to be happy, but I don't want her to remarry." "I would feel the same way. Did she really fight with another professor?" "So you heard that story." "They said it's why she had to leave Nsukka University." "No, she didn't fight. She was on a committee and they discovered that this professor had misused funds and my mother accused him publicly and he got angry and slapped her and said he could not take a woman talking to him like that. So my mother got up and locked the door of the conference room and put the key in her bra. She told him she could not slap him back because he was stronger than her, but he would have to apologize to her publicly, in front of all the people who had seen him slap her. So he did. But she knew he didn't mean it. She said he did it in a kind of 'okay sorry if that's what you want to hear and just bring out the key' way. She came home that day really angry, and she kept talking about how things had changed and what did it mean that now somebody could just slap another person. She wrote circulars and articles about it, and the student union got involved. People were saying, Oh, why did he slap her when she's a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her. So some of her female students went and printed Full Human Being on T-shirts. I guess it made her well-known. She's usually very quiet and doesn't have many friends."