Her DNA

Ben and Angela Ihegboro. Photo credit: New York Post

She was a full Caucasian and had all the features of one only that both her parents New York were black and of the Igbo race. 

Rumour had it that her mother was either  sent packing or left by herself after she delivered a baby girl who was pure Asian and a lot like Chinese. 

She had an attitude and wouldn't speak to a lot of people. Back then we thought it was pride but looking at it now Isiego had a complex because she was different for an unexplainable reason. 

Her father was a black Igbo man and her mother who a few people knew was said to be a black Igbo woman. 

So it was a big puzzle in town that a fully black couple had a fully Asian kid, people always talked about her and wherever she passed people pointed at her and said a lot of things.

It must have been hard being her. She had just one friend and would not make any more friends.

She grew up without a mother and no motherly guidance. Her father did his best but everyone could tell that he was going through a lot having lost his wife in very unusual circumstances.

There was just so much that he could do for his daughter; they were not close and he was very strict with her. People believed that he vented his anger on his poor  daughter.

He somehow believed that she was not his daughter but had no choice but to raise her since her mother was not available. 

While Isiego appeared unhappy most of the time, a lot of young girls envied her DNA. They wanted her smooth silky and straight hair, they wanted her oyibo completion and longed to be called "onye ocha" (white person) like Isiego was called.

What many of the young girls did not know was that she fought her many demons.

Isiego was famous without even trying and so when she started dating it was news. 

It was news because she dated openly from a young age when girls her age lied about their virginity. (The onye ocha factor)

She owed no one no explanations and did not care how many times her father flogged her for coming home late.

It was obvious that Isiego had found the love that always lacked in her life with a much older guy. She was deeply in love and would take any form of punishment just to be with the love of her life. 

Her relationship was the talk of the town, she was seen everywhere with her lover then all of a sudden she went off the radar.

No one saw her again, Isiego simply disappeared. She wasn't at home and she wasn't in school. 

After a while,  there was a story that Isiego was a victim of a quack doctor who performed an illegal abortion on her. She died on the abortion table.

This story is unconfirmed but till date, Isiego has never been seen by anybody who knew her back then.

Me: I still hope that the sad ending of Isiego is not true. 

I also believe that she was genuinely conceived by two black parents as was seen in the case of the two Nigerian parents in the UK who gave birth to a purely white baby they named Nnamchi

After much examinations the doctors came up with the following reasons;

- She’s the result of a gene mutation unique to her. In which case, the baby would pass the gene to her children — and they, too, would likely be white.

- She’s the product of long-dormant white genes, passed on to her by her parents, that might have been carried by their predecessors for generations without surfacing until now.

While doctors confirmed that the baby is not an albino, or lacking in all pigment, the child may have some kind of mutated version of the genetic condition. (Source: NewYork post)

This might have been Isiego's case but lack of technology termed her mother wayward and destroyed a young family. Isiego was only child.