Bücher von Onyeka Nwelue

Nollywood actor, Uche Mbadiegwu leaves his Surulere neighborhood in Lagos, to Bandra in Mumbai to join Bollywood, so he could make it big, hoping to play exceptional roles. Like a flash, Periwinkle appears in his life and changes everything. Tired of living in a pigsty, Efemena want to live a life of independence, but there is more to being a Nigerian in Mumbai - a constant escape from the Indian police and narcotics agents.This novel is a tale of violence, drugs, human trafficking, murder and sex.

My dearest Sibling in Diaspora,I'm writing you these letters from Africa, a place described as a jungle by Pinkpeople.It was from there that your great-grandfathers and mothers were shipped away tolands culturally different from theirs. They were forced into outfits that werestrange to them. They were made to live in a different climate, against their willThey were mullioned, decorated and a new life festered on them. A very differentlife. More chaotic than they ever lived; translucently debilitating and quitehorrendous; more often than you would find in the hardship that young people whoare trafficked through Libya to Europe via the Mediterranean experience today.I am writing to you with a sorrowful and angry soul, because what the Pink peopledid to our fathers and mothers must never be forgotten or forgiven. We shall keepdemanding that they apologize, and ceaselessly remind them of their crimesagainst humanity.These are tasks we must discharge daily. If we failed to do those, the Pink peoplewould continue to manipulate and wound us. The Pink persons are evil; theyconstitute an affliction upon the world. Their heartlessness is unrivaled. Therefore,we must zealously repulse their advance.I am only writing to you, to apologize for many misdeeds. I apologize to you, mydearest Sibling in Diaspora, whom we allowed Pink people to take away from us.They have said that we "sold' you into slavery. I agree. We did, because if wehadn't, no complicity would have been involved in stacking you on the ships. Wehelped them take you away. This is why I am writing this letter to you.To say, I am sorry and that you must forgive us for allowing them to take youaway.Forgive us.

Rajaswamy Rajagopalan, a Tamil Brahmin essayist is totally in love and happy with his East Nigerian Christian wife, Eunice Onwubiko. But there is a threat to their nine year-old marriage.On a trip to Nigeria from India, David, their only son travels in dreams with an albino dwarf, Nfanfa. A brain illness develops in David and this (alongside the mass deportation of Indians from Nigeria) sets the two families, Rajagopalan and Onwubiko crashing in their faiths as they battle differently to keep alive the chord that holds them together.