What is the main conflict in Girls at War, and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe?

In matters of love and family, Akueke and Marriage Is a Private Affair illustrate the
conflict between genders and generations. In the old way of things, marriage was a
process of consolidating power within a village and a means for controlling women.
Fathers chose mates for their children. In Akueke, the title character, having no parent to speak of, chooses to flirt with many men. She becomes pregnant and finds herself returning to the home of her beloved grandfather, who protects her against brothers that tried to leave her to die in the woods. Nnaemeka in Marriage Is a Private Affair, too, chooses to marry without his father's consent. The two are estranged until Nnaemeka has a son. Only then does the father understand the validity of his son's happiness.