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The Last Carver

The Last Carver

Amakeze, Ositadimma

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798644386659
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 5 2022
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Last Carver narrates the musings of the historian Mgbirimgba Atuegwu on the recent death of Omenka, one of the most respected men in his community. From Mgbirimgba's eyes, we are allowed to see the cultural practices of Umuokwe and the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria in the early colonial period. If you read Things Fall Apart, this is the book, next. Enemma was an epitome of beauty. Our rivers do not drown strange people, not to talk of our people. Enema, according to what Atuegwu told me instructed them not to drown those who came to them. Uchu and Ula Rivers defiled her instructions because they thought she had no powers and filled their watery bellies with people who came to quench their thirst and cool their bodies from the scorching sun. Infuriated, Enemma went to Oshimiri, the head source of waters and danced for him from one Eke day to another. Oshimiri was so impressed that he gave her Ozua, Ezu, Ula and Uchu as present for each of the market days she graced his court. When she came back, she let stones, white pebbles and sands tell the stories that there once were rivers in the deserted sites where Ula and Uchu once reigned supreme. Such was the power Enemma wielded.

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