Nigerian activist Solomon Buchi recently talked about the difficulties he had when marrying someone from a different clan.

He was candid about the challenges he had, especially when speaking in front of an audience.

Buchi who is Igbo and married to a Yoruba woman, bemoaned his inability to speak Igbo with Arike in public, usually having to switch to English.

Buchi joked that when he is on a train with his wife, he wished he could talk to her in Igbo and have her understand and reply in kind.

This demonstrates the subtleties and complexity of cross-cultural unions, especially in a linguistically heterogeneous nation like Nigeria.

He said: "Being married to someone from another trouble whose language you can’t speak is stressful.

"You can’t even gist in public. Why does it always have to English? Sometimes I just want to speak Igbo to my wife on the train, and command her to understand it and reply me in Jesus name!

Being married to someone from another tribe whose language you can’t speak is stressful. You can’t even gist in public. Why does it always have to English? Sometimes I just want to speak Igbo to my wife on the train, and command her to understand it and reply me in Jesus name!

— Solomon Buchi (@Solomon_Buchi) December 8, 2023