To be a man in Nigeria is like you have all odds against you. You know you have to do things with seriousness, you know, you have to take opportunities when you see them. Don’t let anything pass you by. Because everything is—you just have to be on your own. You know people will look down on you, nobody is going to support you, so you have to stand on your own and make all those decision you feel that, yeah, will take you to where you want to be…
[Challenges men face are] dealing with poverty, unemployment, making decisions, peer pressure, oppression from peer group, trying to be successful. Most of them are breadwinners in their house, so try to take all those loads, like they try to be the one that people depend on…
[As a Latter-day Saint man in Nigeria] you know that God is always there to help you. You know decision making in your daily life, when you face challenges, he’s always there to help you. You have principles that you follow that will make things easier for you than just be[ing] any other man in Nigeria. Some of them are difficult because of the situation we find ourselves. You know sometimes we find it very difficult to do all those simple little things, but the challenging aspect is that you face a kind of discrimination from people around you… [Others] believe that you are occultic, the church is occultic.”
