Onyeka Onwenu set to release memoir: My Father's Daughter

Ms. Onwenu’s patriotism and love for Nigeria is kind of palpable all through the ebook. Little surprise that My Father’s Daughter can be formally launched to coincide with the 60th yr Independence Day celebration of the nation.

She additionally reminisces on how the Nigerian Civil Battle of 1967 – 1970 scalded her teenage expertise. The debilitating results of the Biafran battle, and the way the household remained certain amidst the chaos are themes that Ms. Onwenu serves up in her ebook. The fragmentation, alienation, and displacement that permeated the Igbo neighborhood after the battle had been additionally delved into by Ms. Onwenu. From her expertise of the battle as a younger girl, the paranoia deeply planted by the consequences of the battle is captured.

The one time Tv journalist paperwork her years in America, the tradition conflict, and the inevitable conflicts which might be the merchandise of being a migrant. She shares her expertise of being sexually harassed in a office and the way her resolution to go away received her a job on the UN. There she crossed paths with a diplomat who inspired her to drive social change in Nigeria.

The memoir covers her media expertise. She talks about going again to post-war Nigeria, being confronted by the failing political system and her tilt in direction of politics to fulfil her father’s legacy. She equally paperwork the challenges she confronted as a politician. She uncovers the failing state of Nigerian politics, and it’s stunning how a few of the difficulties confronted after independence are nonetheless prevalent within the present political clime of the nation. Ms. Onwenu additionally unravels how energy corruption just isn’t solely restricted to the political system. She traces the foundational challenges confronted by the Nigerian political system from the army period right down to democracy.

Onwenu additionally explores her contribution to the budding Nigerian music business of the 1980s. The reader is regaled with tales, the behind the scene happenings within the Nigerian Leisure business. She additionally exposes the exploitation of musicians by business leaders and practitioners – a problem that also ravages artistes’ relationships with main business companions in modern Nigeria. Artistes’ rivalry can also be mentioned by Onwenu and the way unhealthy competitions led to quite a few cracks. Her transition from a musician to an actor can also be chronicled as effectively.

Onyeka Onwenu discusses her personal life. On the wedding entrance, she explores the challenges ladies face and the way she refused to shrink herself to accommodate anybody’s insecurities about her fame.

My Father’s Daughter is a memoir each younger individual must-read. Ladies, particularly, will glean quite a few classes from her life expertise since profitable ladies in Nigeria not often share their tales in a candid and weak method.

Onwenu’s life decisions and her potential to transcend society’s playbook of how a lady ought to dwell serves as a studying curve for younger ladies who will not be afraid to chart their course. From her marital expertise and her fixed refusal to debate her private life, Onwenu exhibits girl’s value just isn’t predicated on her attachment to a person. Her blunt refusal to be seen because the weaker counterpart is uncommon in her era, and within the strains of her ebook lies very important classes younger folks can draw from.

Onwenu’s memoir is on the market for pre-order on Rovingheights web site.

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