She says: "Was it not she, Oyidiya, who had to stand on her feet and defend her family whenever another family challenged it? (Acholonu 74). She never really feels like her trouble, not having a son, is her husband 's fault. She quietly assumes she did not "heed to her chi," and attempts to take on the role of a man, but in way that is not really possible. She puts all the blame on herself because she is a woman, and that is evident because not once is a man blamed, rather herself and all of the wives she takes that do not conceive males. She blames her co-wife Njido and tries everything she can to have a son, but finally ends up with a child that is not blood related to her at all, and then says the child is nothing but trouble. She believes that "[her] chi has fashioned [her] for great things, but Njido is bent on foiling it. Yes [her] chi has fashioned [her] for greatness..." (Acholonu
She says: "Was it not she, Oyidiya, who had to stand on her feet and defend her family whenever another family challenged it? (Acholonu 74). She never really feels like her trouble, not having a son, is her husband 's fault. She quietly assumes she did not "heed to her chi," and attempts to take on the role of a man, but in way that is not really possible. She puts all the blame on herself because she is a woman, and that is evident because not once is a man blamed, rather herself and all of the wives she takes that do not conceive males. She blames her co-wife Njido and tries everything she can to have a son, but finally ends up with a child that is not blood related to her at all, and then says the child is nothing but trouble. She believes that "[her] chi has fashioned [her] for great things, but Njido is bent on foiling it. Yes [her] chi has fashioned [her] for greatness..." (Acholonu