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Aiye
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781806039302
Publisher: Olympia Publishers
Published: Jul 9 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
In the beginning, Aiye-the Earth Goddess-mourns the child she could not keep, and from her sorrow a son is born, destined for kingship. Yet when Time takes her, that same son buries her quietly on his farm, denying her honour as he claims the kingdom she once promised him. But the earth is not silent, and the dead do not forget. From beneath the soil, a skull begins to speak, and with every truth it utters, a royal household unravels-Ogboni, Ogungbe, Ẹmẹsẹ, Otu-each drawn back into the ground they tried to defy. The book then opens into layered, intimate tales: a twin brother divided; a blacksmith rejected for his sores who comes into possession of a bag that never empties; a grave that cannot contain hunger, even a God of Thunder humbled by a ram. Aiye explores power, memory, and the price of forgetting one's roots.
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