Nigeria, Nov. 9 -- A man in his fifties recently recounted his experience emotionally, in tears. He had been married for over fifteen years to his wife, with three children, all girls. As he thought he could live all his life with his wife, tragedy struck and he lost her while she was carrying the pregnancy of their expected fourth child.

For over two years he was devastated and did not intend to remarry, but the pressure became unbearable from those he wanted to protect and make happy. The children told him that they needed a mother figure in the house because the house was empty when there was none, and their father was always not at home.

Another wife, he asked himself. Which one would be suitable? He thought about a widow like him,...