The Dust Must Settle

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes>A particlar family unit in West Africa disintegrates after the turn of the nineteenth century. But this family at the dawning of the twenty-first century against all odds is restored . . . <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'>In a bid to escape his father's tyranny in Arochukwu Uzo Ogbonna elopes to far-away Calabar with his heartthrob Ivuaku. But while living among the Efiks he is murdered by his best Efik friend never to set eyes on his motherless triplet children. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'>His life as an Anglophile pays off finally; a young Welsh missionary in Calabar Mary-Ann takes ill and sails with the now orphaned triplets to England in 1923 as toddlers. Tracing their ancestral home in Africa some years after would have been a lot easier if Mary-Ann had not died and if these triplets had not been separated within the ambit of the British Adoption Act.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA>The machinery set in motion for the coming together of these triplets seventy-nine years after is skillfully narrated by the author in the Book Two and Book Three of this captivating family saga that spans four generations . . . <SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN></SPAN>