Black Girl
by Charles N. Akuneme
The black girl, of course, means a different person and personality from a clearly different cultural background. The story presents episodes replete with instances of cultural conflicts or cultural differences. She comes from a sociocultural background where things that are branded child labour or child abuse in general form part of a necessary process toward personal emancipation or self-actualization. In other words, there is no negativity, only a situation warranted by social need, experience, and reality.
Wasaba, the child hero, loses her mother at the tender age of three and a half years and is put under the tutelage of her possibly wicked aunt, who chiefly cares about her business and has no child of her own initially. She eventually becomes the wife of a prominent and erudite nationalist, London-trained in her profession and indeed a public figure and female leader.
Black Girl is a semibiographical account reflecting the author’s mother’s life history. It becomes the means by which an ordinary girl’s self-actualization takes place. Wasaba’s story, carefully told to acclaim, is evidently a story of life, adventure, and transition into adulthood.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles N. Akuneme was born in 1964 to Chief Daniel Nkemakolam and Mrs. Elizabeth Ogbenyealu Akuneme. He hails from Ubogwu, Awo-Omamma in the Oru-East L.G.A. of Imo State, Nigeria. He attended the former Imo State University, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in English language and literary studies in 1989. He also has a diploma certificate in philosophy and transcripts in theology from two international and reputable institutions based in Nigeria.
Mr. Akuneme has also published I Saw Biafra and Chidi The Handicapped Boy, and he enjoys music composition/performance, drama, poetry, rhetoric, essay writing, and other literary aspects.
(2008, paperback, 118 pages)
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The black girl, of course, means a different person and personality from a clearly different cultural background. The story presents episodes replete with instances of cultural conflicts or cultural differences. She comes from a sociocultural background where things that are branded child labour or child abuse in general form part of a necessary process toward personal emancipation or self-actualization. In other words, there is no negativity, only a situation warranted by social need, experience, and reality.
Wasaba, the child hero, loses her mother at the tender age of three and a half years and is put under the tutelage of her possibly wicked aunt, who chiefly cares about her business and has no child of her own initially. She eventually becomes the wife of a prominent and erudite nationalist, London-trained in her profession and indeed a public figure and female leader.
Black Girl is a semibiographical account reflecting the author’s mother’s life history. It becomes the means by which an ordinary girl’s self-actualization takes place. Wasaba’s story, carefully told to acclaim, is evidently a story of life, adventure, and transition into adulthood.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles N. Akuneme was born in 1964 to Chief Daniel Nkemakolam and Mrs. Elizabeth Ogbenyealu Akuneme. He hails from Ubogwu, Awo-Omamma in the Oru-East L.G.A. of Imo State, Nigeria. He attended the former Imo State University, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in English language and literary studies in 1989. He also has a diploma certificate in philosophy and transcripts in theology from two international and reputable institutions based in Nigeria.
Mr. Akuneme has also published I Saw Biafra and Chidi The Handicapped Boy, and he enjoys music composition/performance, drama, poetry, rhetoric, essay writing, and other literary aspects.
(2008, paperback, 118 pages)
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days.
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