Holiday Time

About the Book

Holiday Time is a novel for children. Written in very simple and straight forward prose, the novel is sure to be enjoyed by children in senior primary and junior high school classes – the target audience. Chapters Eight and Nine are as instructive as they are entertaining. While children are amused and excited, they are also helped to develop adequate consciousness of diseases prevalence and to avoid certain killer disease and varied forms of juvenile delinquency. In places where ignorance and superstition hold sway, especially in Third World countries, school children will be helped with this book to have some health-promoting influence on their illiterate and uninformed parents/guardians. In that important respect, the book is a veritable tool in children’s hands for addressing part of the problem of high mortality rates in developing countries especially.

About the Author

Chike Onyemelukwe received his B.A. (Hons.) and Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a post-graduate Diploma in Regional Development Planning from the Hague, Holland. He taught in the Faculty of the Social Sciences from 1970 to 1987 when he retired voluntarily from the University.

While in the University, Professor Onyemelukwe published several scores of journal articles and widely reviewed books now in use in tertiary institutions. Among the books he authored are Economic Geography of West Africa, Longman, London, 1983, and Industrialization in West Africa, London and New York, 1984. Since his retirement, he has been helping with his publications to meet basic educational needs at the grass roots. His Social Studies series is currently in use as official textbooks in Nigerian schools.