About the book

This collection of 22 short stories is a quick and fast-paced taste of what Nwilo is capable of ? stories about love, death, being poor and even being too rich to know what you should be doing with your money, all laced with a touch of Nigerian authenticity, just how most people like it.

Set in three households in Maputo, this is the story of how a South African conspiracy to infiltrate and destabilize Mozambique creates tragedy for ordinary people. It weaves together present events and past memories in the drama of a few short hours.

It is a few hours to the swearing in of ministerial nominees and everyone thinks Dr. Makoji Ejembi has lost his mind, as they search for an urgent cure for him – Our Son the Minister.

The title of this collection of poems captures the conflicts of the artist in a millennial age

“Reward Nsirim?s stories paint graphic pictures of life in Nigeria. They tell tales that are very familiar, in a voice that is sharp and succinct, quivering with the author?s signature wit. Some will move you to heavy sighs, maybe even the odd tear; others will leave you bent over with laughter. But they will move you one way or the other, as every good story should.” Dikeogu Chukwumerije.

What Sunny Saw in the Flames transports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it seems. Born in New York, but living in Aba, Nigeria, thirteen-year-old Sunny is understandably a little lost. She is albino. Her eyes are so sensitive to the sun that she has to wait until evening to play football.

Young, handsome and intelligent Chike Afare returns for his second year of university with the support of his seemingly stable middle-class family, the inspiring company of exciting friends and a growing curiosity about his place and role in the 90s Nigerian society.