We are all going to die, eventually. Even though we are hoping for heaven, we are not eager to die immediately. We still have much to do while here on Earth, and we hope it will meet with favor in God's eyes. We are strengthened by hope and yet confined within the limits our hopes and beliefs set for us; we are "prisoners of hope," in author Fortune Nwaiwu's captivating phrase. In this well-crafted novelette, Fortune E.C. Nwaiwu tells of the last days of respected Elder Levi, a man whose faith inspired many of his fellow church-goers, a man doomed to a premature death due to lung cancer and...

The Whispering Hope: A Compendium of sermons is a collection of inspiring messages, the man of God, Pastor F.E.C. Nwaiwu, has preached. They represent the heart cry, his desires, and his vision for not only his congregation, but the body of Christ. He may have addressed a particular congregation, but the messages are global. The standard of God to a particular congregation is typical today but also universal. When pastor Nwaiwu calls this collection of Whispering Hope, he means that hope in God for solutions to various shades of problem- whether spiritual, social, economic or whatever, the...

'The Unfaithful Bride' is a dramatic collection of poems that encapsulates the palpable indifference between pastor and his bride. It is imbued on the unfaithfulness of the rider's bride, who has never meant good for her lord. As a result, the poem is a metaphysical piece of art wherein the poet uses a mechanical object to articulate the phenomenon of nuptial indifferences between a couple. There is no direct relationship between a motorcycle and a bride, but through the use of metaphors, the poet illustrates a clear link between the two seemingly unrelated ideas. To his credit, the poet...

We are all going to die, eventually. Even though we are hoping for heaven, we are not eager to die immediately. We still have much to do while here on Earth, and we hope it will meet with favor in God's eyes. We are strengthened by hope and yet confined within the limits set for us our hopes and beliefs; We are "prisoners of hope," the author of Fortune Nwaiwu's captivating phrase. In this well-crafted novel, a minister and teacher of Fortune EC Nwaiwu tells of the last days of respected Elder Levi, a man whose faith inspired many of his fellow church-goers, a man doomed to a premature death...

The author has set out to show the terrible injustices heaped upon women who become widows in certain backward areas of the country. As the story unfolds, the reader is struck by the multitude of foolish beliefs held by the members of such communities. One can only hope that education and Christianity can off-set the terrible influence of certain tribal traditions. As such traditions are displaced and replaced, allowance must be made for the impacts of those changes on the lives of those who have been faithful to their early upbringing. Here, a man with four wives must separate from three of...

The Devil in the Cathedral: A Shadow of Death is a metaphor of lamentation that bemoans the failure of a much looked-up-to leader and that of the led who fail to keep a code of Ten Commandments. This leader Dr. EJANG, who emerges with the rare opportunity which providence gives the minority, squanders it leaving his people not any better than he met them. The play is then a political satire just as it uses the Christian religious parlance to periscope the acts of the individual and the society at large as the cathedral. The irony is that whereas it is Christians that should worship in the...

Men With Broken Hearts is a second compilation of inspiring sermons preached by Evangelist Fortune Nwaiwu. This compilation of homilies has been found useful by people whose lives have been affected in one way or the other; it has helped them to meditate and turn to God for the healing of their souls. At times, we ask this question: Lord, where are you? This sounds so perplexing, revealing a feeling of loneliness and abandonment even at a critical time man needed his God to act. As the man of God preached and wrote in the power of Holy Spirit, his sermons have helped in shaping and...

This study "Code Mixing and Code Switching Among Etche-English Bilinguals" was set to find out the use of code mixing and code switching in both formal and informal settings of Etche-English bilinguals using two domains: education and religion. It examined the types of code mixing/switching, the syntactic positions of code mixing, the probable reasons and the impacts of code mixing and code switching on the use of English among Etche bilinguals. The study was based on the subjects' performance on the use of code. The researcher collected data from the utterances of the subjects from the...

Echoes of the widows is clearly aimed at a focused audience, and intends to be a treatise on widowhood within the Christian faith, with particular examples drawn from the likes of The Book of Ruth to show the kinds of difficulties widows can face within communities and to exemplify behaviors and pathways within the scriptural context of the faith. On the whole, this book is written with a clear argument at its core - widowhood as such is a state with significant worries, woes and difficulties attached to it, however there are provisions within the faith for widows to be taken care of, and for...

The mood of this work is almost pulsating with energy; there is such a sense of foreboding that the tension of the author's writing feels like a pressure that is sure to blow. Yet this is a welcome pressure, as the reader is aware that they are caught up in a profound conflict-- faith, betrayal, and what it means when there is not just friction but collision can be no less than momentous-and the author captures this in all its visceral evocativeness. There is a lyricism to the violence that simply cannot be overlooked-evidenced in a sentence such as "Young man, hear it now, I am not afraid of...