Kisses from America

About the Book

Jasom; the narrator was a 20-year-old undergraduate when he went against the culture of their quiet provincial villages in Nigeria, to build a steadfast love with Nina, the pretty 16-year-old daughter of the senatorial candidate.

He takes you through the stern warnings of Nina's parents and how he managed to stay together with Nina.

And when the hardest test of all came; when Nina left for the United States where she was born to study, he went along with her, with high hopes. He would endure hardship after hardship in an attempt to make his way, suffering indignities and obstacles, until the joy was squeezed out of their adoration for each other, and their love careened on thin ice.

Could their love survive?

About the Author

IKECHUKWU (IKE) WILSON AGBOR was born in Nigeria. He is a wireless telephony consulting engineer, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

He resides in Frisco, Texas in the United States with his wife and four kids. He took time off after a successful rollout of a wireless phone network in Nigeria to write this novel and also contested for the Federal House of Representatives seat for Ohaji-Egbema/Oguta/Oru West Constituency in 2003.

He figured that a lot needed to be changed in his native country. The election as usual was rigged from top down, with the connivance of the military and police who helped in abusing the power of incumbency. Election result sheets were rewritten in his presence while soldiers who were acting on instructions from "above" stood guard with guns drawn.

With the elections over, he returned to the United States and continued his job and spent time in India on a wireless telephone rollout project, from where he put finishing touches on this, his first novel.