ISLANDS OF GOODNESS

About the Book

Mira, a young woman from a middle-class family, lives a life of contrasts that pits dreams against reality and expectations against actuality. She meets a young man that could make her straighten out yet remains herself to a fatal level. Ken, the young man, is pragmatic, sometimes to a fatal level. His mentor and unwitting victim, High Chief Babington, sustains his fondness for him, apparently in line with his numerous philosophies of life—from organizational management to affairs of the heart. Mira loses her life; Ken dithers about an action that he needed to take, then spends his days after losing his job to confide to his diary the developments in his life, in spite of his fading sanity. Probably Ken may have a third chance or may end with up with a second chance that Mira never had.

About the Author

I am qualified to write this book because I have been in literary writing for three decades and have, to date, sixteen titles in the major genres used in schools in Nigeria. I reside at Omoku, Rivers State, Nigeria, where I work although I am from Akwa Ibom State. I am fifty-seven years old from Southern Nigeria (Niger Delta) of the Ibibio tribe. I hold graduate degrees in marketing and philosophy of education and have been in tertiary teaching for the past ten years. I am married with four children. I am currently deputy provost (head) of Federal College of Education (Technical), Omoku, a teacher education institution in Nigeria. I have sixteen published literary works in all the major genres. They are in use at all levels of the educational system in Nigeria. I however have published several academic papers in journals and books of readings in Nigeria and abroad. More information about me can be read from my website, www.basseyubong.com.