Best mates Karl and Abu are both 17 and live near Kings Cross. It’s 2011 and racial tensions are set to explode across London. Abu is infatuated with gorgeous classmate Nalini but dares not speak to her. Meanwhile, Karl is the target of the local ‘wannabe’ thugs just for being different.

When Karl finds out his father lives in Nigeria, he decides that Port Harcourt is the best place to escape the sound and fury of London, and connect with a Dad he’s never known.

Rejected on arrival, Karl befriends Nakale, an activist who wants to expose the ecocide in the Niger Delta to the world. Increasingly distant from happenings in London, Karl falls headlong for Nakale’s feisty cousin, Janoma.

Meanwhile, the murder of Mark Duggan triggers a full-scale riot in London. Abu finds himself caught up in its midst, leading to a tragedy that forces Karl to race back home.

A Stranger’s Pose is an evocative and mesmerising account of travels across different African cities. With lyrical and absorbing prose, Emmanuel invites the reader to share in his travels, and the encounters he made along the way. Alongside these depictions of new places and people is a compelling, and very personal, meditation on the meaning of home, and the importance of intimacy to a lone traveller.

Try not to Say It’s Not Your Country is loaded up with intriguing characters: a South African lady and her kids swarming an iron shack in Blikkiesdorp;

We all were destined to contribute. God planted the seed of enormity in each and everybody of us, and preparing and building up this seed is the establishment for our definitive satisfaction throughout everyday life. The certainties contained in this book are the center standards and thoughts that will enable the peruser to build up an all-encompassing picture of the stuff to breath life into their enormity.

This self-study book is pacakaged in Izon and English languages. The aim of Izon Fie is to enable any interested person to gain a basic understanding of the Izon Language through reading and writing.