From the isolated materialism of suburban America, fair-skinned college students, Will and Jane, innocently follow their closest friend, Bosah Dolubasao, to assist with his powerful and feared father's various businesses in one of Nigeria's poorest, most mendacious and dangerous regions, the Port Harcourt area, where night robbers, kidnappers and venality are a way of life. The powerful and mysterious world of the Dolubasao family is revealed as Will becomes an aide-de-camp for Bosah and his father, Chief Sir Kaweire Dolubasao. From Port Harcourt to Lagos and Abuja, they are thrust into a...

Will's life is supposed to be a happy one. He's the top young associate at Seattle's most prestigious law firm, married to a beautiful woman, living in a big house and driving a flashy sports car. The facets of his diamond life mirror the American Dream, the dream prescribed like a steady diet of drugs by happily-ever-after pushers - Hollywood, TV, newspapers, book publishers, social networks - and reinforced by those around us who've wrestled or are wrestling to have a similar dream prescription filled. But for Will, something isn't right. The Oldest Professions is an adventure of the heart,...

In a London park on a sunny day three unique friends came together, one from the near east, one from the far west and one from many places in between. They talked of things great and small, but mostly of the thing that matters most, the Now: the joy, pain, comedy and passion of Life as it is being experienced in the present including the experience of past reflections and future imaginings. As they laughed and shared their stories and observations a wellspring of feeling, perspective and reflection surfaced. Inspired by their meeting they each wrote down what they felt and thought, in poetic...