The Shadow Knows

About the Book

The enduring cultural precepts of the indomitable ethic Igbos of Nigeria have sustained their revered human endowments for ages - morality, imagination, self-awareness, independent will. But severe economic deprivation at the wake of a lost civil war pitted their acute sense of survival against these cultural precepts.

The Shadow Knows tells a bemusing story of a reprehensive life of a desperate young man under the menacing weight of his impeaching conscience; and the damning judgement of God and Man he grantically tries to escape. A contextual story of Igbo toughts and culture under strict tradisional rules of actions and consequences.

About the Author

Isi-Ichie Benneth Nnaedozie Okpala is an Architect/City Planner employed with the City of Houston, Texas, USA. He is married with one child.

Mr. Okpala is a proactive leader in the Houston's Igbo community and a past president of Igbo Peoples' Congress, an umbrella organization for a large number of local community organizations. He presently resides in Southwest Houston, and is a member of All Saints Anglican Church where he serves as a lay reader.

Mr. Okpala is also the author of Toasting the Bride: Memoirs of Milestones to Manhood, a pungent social commentray on life in America.