Before the dawn is a brief account of the life in a small community in the eastern Nigeria before the advent of modern civilization. It describes the organizational structure of the people and the activities they were engaged in; activities like farming, construction of the houses, marriage ceremony, naming ceremony, funeral ceremony, initiation ceremonies (into adulthood or into the prestigious nze na ozo society), the peoples religious practices, festivals, beliefs and taboos, peoples pa...

In a community where everybody was caught up in the vicious web of poverty, ignorance and disease, a woman of foresight decided to extricate her family from the claws of that endless cycle of doom. She fought against all odds to educate her children and somehow she succeeded. All her children made it above the community average and some made it to the top. What some people take for granted to others it is a matter of life and death. Follow the trials and tribulations of people to acquire b...

A young victim of circumstances turned to prostitution as a means of survival. When a young man chose her as wife opposition ensued not because of her past (because he didnt reveal that to his people) but because of ethnicity and poor educational attainment. When those obstacles were surmounted God blessed them and they used their resources to serve God and humanity.

Tales of our time is a collection of mind-enriching stories that will entertain, educate and enthrall you. It contains stories from the past and present properly arranged to meet the needs of both young and old readers; it has something for every reader no matter the educational, cultural or religious background of the reader. Do you want to know why the elephant has small eyes or why the tortoise has a broken shell or what happens to liars or what happens to trafficked people or what happ...

The Conscript is the story of the Nigerian civil war or (the Nigeria-Biafra war as some people call it) as seen through the eye of a child soldier that was conscripted into the Biafran army. It is by no means an account of the war but purely the way a young conscript saw the war and the impact of the war on his life and the life of his people.