Kunim

Set within the cultural and geographical framework of Nigeria Kunim: Raise Me Up is a collection of not-so-short stories that examine universal themes such as discrimination and familial discord as well as culturally specific biases beliefs and traditions as it takes its readers on three very distinct but equally enlightening journeys. <br /><br />In Fate two young motherless sisters are forced to navigate the often-tumultuous waters of intra-cultural stereotyping and discrimination while their father is away on business. Shadows tells the story of a young Nigerian businessman currently living in the United States who returns to his home village and falls for a beautiful young woman whose mysterious nature has him rethinking everything he'd thought he understood about himself the world and the nature of the supernatural. And finally in Eyes that Speak a young girl whose parents perpetually keep themselves too busy to even notice her let alone the unravelling of their own marriage is feeling disconnected alone and fed up with the world until an unexpected kindness from a supposed adversary changes absolutely everything (though perhaps not for the better). <br /><br />Whether the Nigerian culture is your own familiar to your own or nothing like your own the heart of this collection is the universality of the themes shining a light into the depth of mankind's complicated nature and how we cope with living as disparate collections of individuals among the larger multitudes juggling cultural traditions expectations and our own instinctive need to belong.