The Helpmate

About the Book

The helpmate is a fiction, though, reflecting real life event. It is a tragic story. A tale of struggles, hardship, fortune, survival and death.

                Indiscipline inspires a wreck; Papa who places no value on his life gives extension a hand to experience a crash of matrimony. As through nonchalant attitude and moral degeneration, he despises his wife for a reasonable while, playing harlotry under the shelter of a prostitute, which results in the divorce between him and the wife.

                It stands a fact therefore that when the heavens refuse to rain, it is the ground that suffers. This is the more reason Dara suffers hardship and much more of loneliness and dejection than necessary, as this is not unconnected to this departure of his mother.

                Man's love for beast is not always without the influence of what they could produce. Dara, dearly loves Riro but twice to deny the beast of the commensurate action as the proof of this love, even, when Riro chooses to risk her life in his rescue, Dara in returns chooses to pay her with pity from a distance.

                We dream, we hope, we expect with longings in life, but we do not know what tomorrow holds. This is explained by the unexpected and sudden end of Riro. For this sudden and unexpected end of Dara's lover bring him back to a zero level of fulfillment, bruising his desires like the impact of the sun upon a fallen leave …

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 Stephen B. Oladipo is a Ph.D student, studying criminology under the Department of sociology, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.
 He is a motivational speaker, a researcher, a mathematician, an economist and equally a journalist. Summarily, he places premium on human development and contribution to knowledge. Thus, as a prolific writer and poet, he presently has about 19 published materials aside international journals to his credit. A number of these books are currently in use in Government Secondary Schools within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
 He attains a degree with the University of Abuja and equally further in the same discipline with second degree (M.sc) in Economics with the University of Nigeria.
 As an alumnus of International Institute of Journalism (IIJ), he is of no mean contribution to the print media with a consistent longing to leave an indelible mark in the world of literature, both within and outside the shores of Nigeria.
 He has been nominated for several International Awards in recent years. He is however the winner of the 2007 & 2008 Editor’s Choice Award with the International Library of Poetry.
 Steve is a profound researcher and he has traveled extensively in his bid to better his knowledge about human relation and living. A young man in favour and blessed.