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Letters of disillusionment with Nigerian politics and government from students I'd taught at Nigerian universities in the 1980's inspired this book of fiction. They'd complained of how the virtues of government they'd learned in class were being defamed by successive Nigerian governments. Public services dysfunction, infrastructure decay, chronic official corruption, clamped down free speech, perennial election rigging, and state-sponsored law...

This compelling immigrant story presents an enchanting mix of miracles, trials, mysteries, tragedies, enrichment, and redemption that often presage the search for freedom and the liberty to live a dream of a fully engaged life. The backwater idol-worshipping Benin enclave in southwestern Nigeria might seem an unlikely setting to dream of flying in an airplane to distant lands, and especially to America, in the immediate post-World War II Briti...

This compelling immigrant story presents an enchanting mix of miracles, trials, mysteries, tragedies, enrichment, and redemption that often presage the search for freedom and the liberty to live a dream of a fully engaged life. The backwater idol-worshipping Benin enclave in southwestern Nigeria might seem an unlikely setting to dream of flying in an airplane to distant lands, and especially to America, in the immediate post-World War II Briti...