EARTH'S MAN OF COLOR

About the Book

A distinction is drawn between two very similarities based on the two types of characters that the same type of society produced. Orie, Puzo and Nmaku who hail from Angwa and the adjoining Ocha remained back in the village and made their lives almost permanently there rarely knowing what was going on in the outside world but being nonetheless greatly influenced by the latter. Their daily chores are dictated by the daily basic necessities of the moment and they have little to worry perpetually about. A lot of their life is controlled by the dictations and predictions of the traditional medicine man who occasionally misfires in his predictions which have no scientific basis supporting them. His situation is often taken advantage of by the political class who have little or nothing to lose even if the polity collapses. But Livinus on the other end of the spectrum emerges from the civil war and through a dint of luck and hard work studies hard and becomes a doctor. He even proceeds overseas despite a close shave by arsonists. He specializes and returns home to Akunwanta town from where he is again catapulted by ‘fate and focus” to become the governor of his state after a battle between titans eliminates the principal contestants. He at first meant well and had the intention of helping to reform society. Post election litigation and his lack of the economic leverage almost cost him his mandate. But again fate plays a hard one on him and because of his lack of cash he gets tied up to the economic vampires of his society. He is bailed out by a coalition of these vampires and narrowly reclaims his mandate only after colossal bribing of umpires who were least expected to soil their hands. He decides never to go begging ever again and hence he delves headlong into the rot and decay, not by his will but by the circumstances prevailing around him.

About the Author

Dr. Oliver Akamnonu is a medical doctor who specialized in anesthesiology. A former School Captain of Government Secondary School Afikpo; two term chairman Nigerian Medical Association Imo State; Member of Board, Federal Medical Center Owerri; Member of Council, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria; recipient of the year 2005 Distinguished Medical Practitioner Award (DMP, 2005), Dr. Akamnonu is a cofounder and chairman of Akamnonu Foundation for the Poor. His other published books in the United States include: Suppers of Many Dishes I; Suppers of Many Dishes II; The Gods Have Not Yet Spoken; Taste of the West; Nation of Dead Patriots; Coming Late to America; The Honorable; Earth’s Man of Color, Genes Agenda or Jeans*; and the poetry book Bature (poetry book on war, fragile peace and repression) (*with professor Ndu Eke). He is married to Dr. Chika Agnes Akamnonu and they have four children. He lives in New York, USA.