Wishful Exuberance

About the Book

For anyone who had read Chinua Achebe's "Things fall apart" and then "No longer at ease" or the likes, Wishful Exuberance could not have been a better metamorphosis and evolution. Emmy is a priceless beautiful African child and grew up in the typical but rather rapidly changing African society. Traditional societal values are not completely eroded yet. Then wait. Moral values founded on culture and religion joined together to transform this very handsome, intelligent, sexy and sometimes radical boy into a powerful modulated epitome who while he basked in the euphoria of rarity and exceptional phenotypic endowments went on to resist the lure and controversy of fleshy desires while treading on doggedly with colossal achievements.

The book tells us the waking and sleeping, seasons and the fun they bring, the youthful thinking which is sometimes selfish and the growing up of an ambitious African school boy as his physical and emotional conflicts battle to find inspiration that could take him further to realise his great dreams while still overcoming jealousy, enmity and the stresses of inter-family competition. His father had same struggles. It was now his turn in a different setting. He knew it. He was determined.

Many aspects of the story keep the reader in suspense and leave you with the irresistible curiosity and urge to get it done with. In this story Emeka Madu captures the heart beat and inner recesses of the mind of a growing youth in a typical village setting that adores its good age long traditions and culture which is the pivot of societal life and which is increasingly been eroded by the nascent impinging moral decadence and western culture. It leaves the younger reader thinking he or she is or would be like Emmy and the older reader thinking he or she was in the same shoes as Emmy.

About the Author

Dr. Anthony Ngozichukwu Chukwuemeka Maduagwu (Emeka Madu) is a born writer and poet who later studied Medical Sciences in Calabar, Nigeria, at a young age after years of clashes between his consummate ambition and versatility. During this period, this fiction and many of his poetry works on love, ambition and struggle took roots. He is known to make lonesome walks to the woods and at dawn harvest the rhythms and inspirations that frame many of his works.

He was a writer, columnist and activist in and after school and had manned the Medical Students' Secretariat. He has continued to write and currently working on his next fiction and series of poetry works. He is also pursuing a postgraduate medical specialization in the United Kingdom.