Calabar Stories

A young lad and his loved ones from Cross River, with daring ambitions, seek to overcome obstacles they experience as Nigerians. Will they? #1 in project African culture #1 in gender inequality 27/7/24 #2 in Calabar 18/4/23 #5 in mother-in-law18/4/23 #1 in Calabar 8/11/23 #3 in instability 23/7/24 Thank you so much for reading this... Please, this is still a WIP, so bear with me. I edit progressively. Trigger alert: violent scenes and words, matured content. Book cover credit: Desygner, thank you for a great book cover. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ifumi is an individual with a very busy mind. Words keep popping up everywhere. They do not observe the traffic rules🤣. Here is what she does. She brings the overflow of words to prevent a standstill. Her book on nature poems, 'Age of the Sun' is available on Amazon. The link is in her 'About'

A girl, abandoned by the world finds herself on the run from the world that has abandoned her. In her bid to escape, she encounters 'something' older than the world she seeks to escape.

This is a fictional story of a young man who would have wanted things to go his way, personally, he wished life was some movie and he had a remote control in his hand. sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy as Calvert shows you how much you also want that remote in your hand. His name is Calvert and his 20years old. Every Characters and events in this work are fictional and are in no way referred to any person (living or death), or to any events (in the past or future). Any resemblance to real people.(living or death), or events is a total coincidence. ORIGINAL WORK AND IDEAS BY LEKAN MACAULAY. AVOID PLAGIARISM AND PIRACY. THIS WORK IS RESTRICTED BY COPYRIGHT.

About a misunderstood college student who just wants to find love.

this poem is written in honor of the Scottish missionary who came to Nigeria over a hundred years ago and stopped the killing of twin children among other beautiful humanitarian works

Mrs Idara Coker: Your typical middle-aged, wealthy widowed mother is found one morning on her bed, stabbed to death, leaving behind four beautiful daughters, a flourishing business and a question too difficult to answer. Detective Mary Chukwukaima Wilson: Nationally acclaimed homicide detective. A cop with the charm, a charm she uses to her advantage when dealing with criminals. Her business is her pleasure and she has cracked some of the most horrifying cases. Crime scenes are her second home and very little has challenged her until now. Now she is faced with a case that is almost as entangled as it is messed up.

After 7 years of being apart, Sandra Obizie, and Daniel Clement meets in an unexpected circumstance. Back then, he had cheated on her with her best friend, Damilola, and Sandra had nothing but hate for him. It puzzles Sandra between having Daniel back into her life and letting go of the past. Fortunately, destiny made them board the same ship for a sibling's wedding. On their way to the wedding venue, while Sandra tries her best to avoid Daniel on the ship, it suddenly sinks. One of them would have to survive... save the day, or fall deep in water. Copyright ©2023

Uyai(Beauty) had always been ashamed of her gangly figure, she was too tall for her age with no curves whatsoever and in a village where curvy was considered beautiful and skinny ugly, she has to face the brunt of being the only lady in her village with no meat on her bones, something her sister Affiong was richly blessed with. Because of her sister's beauty, Uyai plays matchmaker to help two young men both seemingly in love with her sister. One plays a fast game and succeeds in making Affiong fall for him and the aftermath causes Uyai to play elder sister. Uyai escort her sister who had been ordered to leave home to the city of Calabar where her new life begins as chains of events occurs. It's here she discovers the true meaning of her name.

when you feel out of place in this world, just think poetry, live poetry, and find your world in your words

I am mindful of the many difficulties new Lawyer dependably confronts when in the wake of being call to the Bar. At the point when most Legal Practitioners begin working, they instantly begin considering approaches to progress in their fields.

Poetry.

Humorous and anecdotal stories loosely based on experiences traveling and working during the 1980's and 90's, in the African offshore oil industry. Drawing on some real and some imagined situations that should never have occurred, but unfortunately did, all too often. Near sinkings, legendary drinking bouts, malaria driven feverish events, and incredulous run-ins with the politics of Angola and Nigeria from officialdom and from the locals. Old boats and oil equipment that should have been out to pasture, but all ending up offshore Africa, along with the same calibre of personnel, who drifted along with that old equipment.

A typical remote African story of a boy, who found a mystical way of saving his people from famine - THE MAGIC FLUTE... "My friend, I was shocked when the village Head summoned an emergency meeting this afternoon, approximately one hour ago and on getting there, I saw the village hunter, Akpan Mkpa standing before the village Head. When all the elders were seated, His Highness asked him to repeat what he had earlier told him and he did. Your son's name was mentioned as the owner of a magic flute in this village that invent fish and snails. He has been summoned to the palace to explain to us how he came about this magic flute at this time. I will advise you to come with us." He finished speaking and walked outside.