My dearest Sibling in Diaspora, I'm writing you these letters from Africa, a place described as a jungle by Pink people. It was from there that your great-grandfathers and mothers were shipped away to lands culturally different from theirs. They were forced into outfits that were strange to them. They were made to live in a different climate, against their will They were mullioned, decorated and a new life festered on them. A very different life. More chaotic than they ever lived; translucently debilitating and quite horrendous; more often than you would find in the hardship that young people who are trafficked through Libya to Europe via the Mediterranean experience today. I am writing to you with a sorrowful and angry soul, because what the Pink people did to our fathers and mothers must never be forgotten or forgiven. We shall keep demanding that they apologize, and ceaselessly remind them of their crimes against humanity. These are tasks we must discharge daily. If we failed to do those, the Pink people would continue to manipulate and wound us. The Pink persons are evil; they constitute an affliction upon the world. Their heartlessness is unrivaled. Therefore, we must zealously repulse their advance. I am only writing to you, to apologize for many misdeeds. I apologize to you, my dearest Sibling in Diaspora, whom we allowed Pink people to take away from us. They have said that we "sold' you into slavery. I agree. We did, because if we hadn't, no complicity would have been involved in stacking you on the ships. We helped them take you away. This is why I am writing this letter to you. To say, I am sorry and that you must forgive us for allowing them to take you away. Forgive us.
A novella that retells some popular tales from the eastern Nigeria. It follows the same pattern as Even Tortoise Can Fly and Save the Twins. It tries to tell the story of a young girl who despite several obstacles on her way, scales the hurdle, to become very rich and popular. After a few years later, however, she gets married to a ghost, and eventually returns to square one.
Save the Twins is a novella that transcends the path of history. Then it was considered an abominable act to give birth to twins in Eastern Nigeria. The writer explains such concerted collusion among four women, and one of the male twins has to be hidden away. The consequent appearances of ghosts to various persons insinuate that there may indeed be some powers hidden in ancient traditions. It is even more enigmatic to discover at last that those twins themselves are simply an architect of their destiny, to remain alive.
Trouble Knows Tomorrow is a free-flowing and easy-to-read novella set in a modern African city. This setting provides an ideal hideout for Raphael, who has been on escapade, having duped a Brazilian business firm about a decade ago. He was then popularly called Big Don. The story details the chains of events leading to his eventual demise. This piece is a conclusion of the author's previous works, Mammon on the Prowl and Who Killed the Antelope. Raphael's business has been crippled by ominous circumstances; he's been facing a dwindling fortune that soon escalates with the visit of his father who has been in the village. He learns his younger brother has completed a building that only he Raphael should have built and throughout his lifetime. There are troubles, and just at the same time he discovers his money has been missing mysteriously. Eventually his business fizzles out owing to his father's ill-health and diabolic spell of a young lady he has fallen in love with. Fearful about imminent death, he demands for spiritual protection which among other things means he would be impregnable to bullet shots. This last endeavor costs him his life.
The novel is indeed a cartoon and detailed scenes of those gory machinations of Nelson Iwenofu and Maxwell Anikwenwa. Paul, a new employee storms the environs of Via Crucis and believes he has reached a paradise. Incidentally his boss and the mentor of his boss attempt to kill him off for their political ambition. The plot fails. Now they decide instead to use his spirit to kill and kill and kill. See the road eroded by blood. But when the two wicked men begin fighting each other, their dreams certainly will never materialize.
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