In my own circumstances, once i dreaded, the new much-forecast suitor came along, fulfilled my moms and dads, and you may required my personal hand-in matrimony instead of asking myself, his fiance-to-getting. My parents, too, without consulting me personally (which was sensed not unusual regarding the Gambian area from the time), decided to marry myself away from, although I was only 14. I would personally was in fact an alternate dropout, but I became therefore desperate that we threatened when deciding to take my personal very own existence if i try drawn out-of-school for relationship.