Suppers of Many Dishes II: MY ODYSSEY TO THE WEST AND BEYOND

About the Book

About the book The guns had barely gone silent after thirty months of a gruesome civil war. The infrastructure in the theater of war had all but been completely battered. A young final-year high school student fresh from the ravages of war had gained admission into one of the only four universities in his forcibly reunited country to study medicine in the western region of the country. A whole world of opportunities had been opened up. An unfolding odyssey of eleven action-packed years in the local ‘West’ was to transform the emerging lover-boy “eaglet” through the ranks of William Shakespeare’s “lover sighing like furnace” to “the soldier full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard”. A short stint in party politics followed by leadership in professional politics pitched the young man against the powers that be. These were to culminate into series of dangerously veiled duels that were to ultimately force the man to seek disguised “refuge” in the shores of the “acclaimed West”. A new world, a new horizon, new scenes, new challenges, some uncanny solutions; the main actor in the odyssey himself bares it all!

About the Author

Oliver Akamnonu is a physician, with specialization in anesthesiology. An author and poet, Dr. Akamnonu had his early education at St. Brigid’s School Enugu, Nigeria, and Government Secondary School Afikpo, where he was the School Captain . He finished his education at the University of Ibadan medical and postgraduate schools. A former state chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, former member of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria MDCN, member of the Board of Federal Medical Center Owerri, recipient of the Distinguished Medical Practitioner (DMP 2005) award, chairman of the Akamnonu Foundation for the Poor, he became an author after he immigrated to the United States and has over eighteen published books to his credit. Dr. Akamnonu’s published books include Suppers of Many Dishes Part I; Suppers of Many Dishes Part II; The Gods Have Not Yet Spoken; Taste of the West; Nation of Dead Patriots; Bature; The Honorable; Coming Late to America; Earth’s Man of Color: Genes, Agenda, or Jeans; Soldier Ants of War; The Trial of Monogamy; the award-winning book Rap to Mars; A Spot to Perch; Comedy of Naked Vampires; Konganoga: Mauling the Polity; and the widely read book Arranged Marriage and the Vanishing Roots. He is also the author of several short stories and literary contributions in several blogs and newspapers. A Nigerian-born citizen of the United States, Dr. Akamnonu lives in Massachusetts, USA, with his wife, Dr. Chika Agnes Akamnonu; and they have four children.