Emeka was born in a lowly African village. He grew to become a bully that most children of his age dreaded. He left the village after his primary education to his uncles house in the city where he went for an adventure with his cousin. That singular adventure changed the course of his entire life and he made an unbelievable discovery that made him a hero.
Emeka was a good man, and tried to do good things for the people he liked. Emeka worked for a State Governor in Nigeria. Although he had good intentions of using his power to help his friends and family, he learns that using public office and funds to make those close to him happy can actually harm the people in his State. Emeka’s Money is a modern parable designed for children aged six to ten years old to help them understand the impact that corruption has within Nigerian society. Written by anti-corruption and service delivery expert Onyinye Ough and illustrated by Adeniyi Odeleye, this is the perfect book for African parents to teach their children about the impact of corruption. The book aims to encourage a new generation of leaders to change how things are done on the continent.
Frederick Forsyth is a best-selling popular novelist. He strongly and publicly supported the cause of Biafra in the Nigerian civil war, and covered the period as a war correspondent in Biafra. He had a fifteen-year association with the Igbo leader, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. His biography of'Emeka' was published in 1982 with the full cooperation of the subject.It covers his youth, army training, the civil war, and his twelve-year exile. Still of great interest, the biography has now been revised.
Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator—that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act. Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Passages North, the Cream City Review, and the Tampa Review, among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.
“The Rising Earth” is a story of two worlds, Umuosisi and Umuocham. At inception, the two worlds were given the same set of circumstances. Each world lived her life based on their understanding, interpretation, and use of natural resources available to her. The people of Umuosisi lived a life that preserved their natural resources, while Umuocham, out of greediness, lived a life that exploited their natural resources. At the end, the descendents of Umuosisi lived a life of happiness without diseases, hunger, violence, injustice, or war. They were reputed singers. On the other hand, the Umuocham people struggled as labourers to improve their life by acquiring various technologies. The more technologies they acquired, the worse their living conditions became. They were ravaged with hunger, unemployment, diseases, wars, rising temperatures, and river dryness. A nongovernmental organization, Green Earth Initiative, emerged in Umuocham to save them from dying. The organization identified the use of fire as the major factor responsible for their woes. They hired Emeka to extinguish fire in Umuocham and reverse the course of the Earth.
This book is about some taboos among the Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria. They are not the kind of topics for normal open conversations but, rather, are the sort of things whispered between members of a family or among friends. The victims suffer in silence without recourse to the laws of the land. There is often no means of escape for them. Everyone pretends they do not exist. This makes it almost impossible to tackle the exclusion, discrimination, or abuses within the community.
Omanma was in love with Emeka. Suddenly, she was thrown into Chinedus hands by a banana skin. This was a turning point in the life of Omanma, as things began to take a dramatic and gradual change. Omanmas love had magically come to be through the hand of the banana skin. In the course of exploring her different roles in the book, we see several others who come into contact with her. Through Omanmas eyes, we see the full picture of her family and some of the societal happenings, such as Eze coronation, New Yam Festival, and several other exciting instances. Unfortunately, Omanmas real love did not mature early; she went through lots of experiences before she discovered herself and her true lover, Chinedu.
