Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
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This is the intriguing, suspenseful and fateful story of a twelve-year-old orphan girl from a West African kingdom in south eastern Nigeria. It’s an engaging journey of how she was kidnapped from her village by unknown men during the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967 to 1970. Amidst all the challenges, she found inner strength to survive the ordeal after she was taken across the 'enemy line' to the war zone, where Nigerian soldiers were in charge and had many young women and innocent girls at their camp. Ijego exhibited extraordinary resilience, wisdom and strength. She forged ahead to educate herself, believing that it’s the will of God for her to survive regardless of where she found herself: the Nigerian and Biafra war zones. It is a thoughtful story to encourage girls and young women who find themselves in different but difficult situations in life. It challenges them to hold strong and endure the struggle to survive towards a good end. With the affection of a young, handsome army Captain from the middle belt of the country surrounding Ijego, she became pregnant, but her son who was forcefully taken away from her. Afterwards, she went through bouts of depression and disillusionment, as she journeyed past many rivers, valleys and mountains in search of the baby. He had been moved beyond the boundaries. As he grew and became a man, he was looking for her as she was looking for him. Then, the unplanned meeting, the fateful coincidence of destiny, and....
