HOLD THE SPARK
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Last published Mon, Oct 22, 2018
A book touching the life of a nigerian boy revealing a little on the story beneath the mind of a growing African teenager not embarrassed with the labors of the hands or of the head, not sold to the life of slavery for daily bread or for a flamboyant lifestyle or harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace, the issue of being enraged with the passion of envy or secret burning lust for ambition for great things and to fight for what he feels is right and as well the horrors of young love, broken hearts, tears, the quest of happiness, without the bitter,feeling he is happy and learning by every day's experience.
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