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In these poems, Akachi Adimora-Ezeibo reiterates the importance of justice, gender equality, accountability, and respect for one. Exploring such subjects as the Coronavirus pandemic, injustices against women and immigration, among others, Adimora-Ezeigbo posits that with little acts of kindness and tolerance, our world can be a better place.
PROFESSOR MAGNUS NWOKEKE is dead.Perceived as arrogant, proud and inaccessible, he is now in the Land of the Dead, watching people, busy, preparing a funeral party for him, in the Land of the Living. He belongs to the Anglican Church in his village, Ezeoke Nsu, so there is a Vigil, by the Umuokpu, a powerful clan group made up of the families' first daughters, who are seen singing at the back of the compound while having tea and eating bread. From the Other Side, Professor NWOKEKE can't stop them, but he grins and whines and cringes.
Money is power. When you have power, it can be intoxicating. That is why the power gate-keepers that money spawn like to delight in the broth of infallibility.But when powerful people are dragooned to their knees, it is always disastrous.Let''s think of Harvey Weinstein-who was the Executive Producer of almost every film you could find on Netflix, when they started. He provided them with all sorts of mooi content as you''d imagine. Still and all when his time was up, his fall was deep, steep, and tragic.Harvey had the money, so he had the power. Money is magnetic. It brings close to you, the wrong people. As you have the money, you have the power. There are many people hanging around to demystify you and wring that power away from you, forxiii Onyeka Nweluethemselves. Every powerful person, has someone, willing to take him out.In the circle of the powerful, it is the least powerful that wants to usurp all the powers. They stay strategically placing themselves where they can take over.The real owners of Britain are not the ''real'' Britons. The real owners of Britain are people, whose ancestors came here long ago. They have now mastered the channels to get to where they want and when they do, they no longer want others, who look like them to come
My friend, Orah Alexander Somto tweeted a lot about his experience, trying to leave Ukraine to Poland. There were other people, but his tweets and our private WhatsApp messages, ignited the fires that burned the embers of this collection.Switch to the other side, I was perilously impaired by the adverse effect the friction between the tribes of Ukraine and Russia would infringe on the harmony of the world. This is why I was not too concerned at the way, the West presented it, to look like if one problem bemoans Europe, then, Africa will be crushed. Someone almost called it World War 3, but I think it''s same as the tribal wars going on everywhere in Africa. Africans are not less human!Either that, I surged the capacity of telling my emotions and forward bearing on the lumpiness of translating my feelings onto the page, to create sensations.
Rajaswamy Rajagopalan, a Tamil Brahmin essayist is totally in love and happy with his East Nigerian Christian wife, Eunice Onwubiko. But there is a threat to their nine year-old marriage.On a trip to Nigeria from India, David, their only son travels in dreams with an albino dwarf, Nfanfa. A brain illness develops in David and this (alongside the mass deportation of Indians from Nigeria) sets the two families, Rajagopalan and Onwubiko crashing in their faiths as they battle differently to keep alive the chord that holds them together.
Vaults of Secretsalso reveals notable capacity for tackling difficult subjects within a range of diverse settings. From the miserable confines of a Nigerian prison to Western suburbia, we are made to come to terms with the universality of the human condition: that we all suffer and hurt, regardless of the places we inhabit, or the social statuses we bear.
An ambitious young banker's stable but uninteresting life is disrupted when he comes across a book of fiction. recounting torrid experiences he lived through as an undergraduate. The banker is Peter Idenala; the writer is Neta Okoye. the girl who broke his heart six years before.When the book brings them together, these former lovers are forced to confront the violence of their past, Peter bears a physical scar from those years. Netas scars are entirely psychological, including one concerning an incestuous secret she has carried for years. Will the stupidities of their youth pull them apart again? Or will they overcome the trauma of their pastto create a future together?
A Journey Within by Graciano Enwerem is an attempt by the author to teach copywriting skills, emotional, financial and street intelligence with non-fictitious stories of how he did all of these wrongly in his journey of branding himself from being a mute child, a stammerer into being the artiste he is today.
A young Nigerian woman, Uhunoma, is in search of a better life but finds herself locked up in a Bavarian prison for not having valid documents to stay in the EU. In prison, she meets women from all over the world.
In his search for man and mankind, Linkman, ''the missing link between the apes and man'', traverses from a small hut to a big mansion, from the village of Agama to the city of Lagos, and from the confines of Nigeria to the outposts of London and New York. He makes many interesting discoveries along the way.
Pastor Nicholas Adejuwon and his beautiful wife Nkechi run Rivers of Joy Church, the rave-of-the-moment Lagos megachurch.The media savvy supercouple projects the picture of a perfect family and a prosperous church.However, there are scandalous secrets.When Nkechi decides to investigate her husband'sindiscretion it was merely to satisfy her curiosity. What she unravels is a web of bruising secrets that run deeper than she could ever imagine, threatening her reality as she knew
Mlilo, a young isangoma, is forced to call on his friend Dan, a Druid apprentice, to help him retrieve his sacred amathambo (bones) from the clutches of evil. Taking us on an unprecedented journey through the magical realms of his ancestry and traditional beliefs, Mlilo's emerging skills are tested in life or death encounters with beings from the realm of Abaphansi. Amira, a close friend of Dans, has her own independent path to forge but will soon find that her personal quests are inextricably linked to the two men. The three young adults, finding their way in the world, still have much to learn about themselves, their conflicting approaches, and their true callings. They must work together, combine their skills and find the talismans that make up Mlilos bag of bones, the key ingredient to an isangomas abilities and powers in this and the other worlds around us. While the gods, demigods, deities and shapeshifters, all with their own agendas, make navigating Abaphansi a deathly challenge. The solitary isangoma, self-reliant to the extreme, will learn the importance of friendships, alliances and the meaning of living life in the real.
Osas is a young and impressionable Nigerian painter, who escapes poverty and hardship in Benin City, into the chaotic and crime-ridden belly of Johannesburg, through the help of a travel agent. But to survive, he must live a life of adventure and spontaneity and criminality.
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