Christianese plus romance never felt so damn good. Tomilola Coco Adeyemo
The Bishops Prodigal Daughter is a warm, engaging, and inspiring story about second chances at love, faith and with family.
Eloviano Elo Obrukhe is only returning to her home, the oil rich island of Pakurumo to be a maid of honour at her best friends wedding and nothing else. She is determined to avoid her disapproving mother, jealous sister and the boy next door that has grown into a distractingly handsome man. But nothing about her supposed whirlwind trip could have prepared Elo for her mothers sudden heart attack, nor the impossible-to-resist offer she makes in exchange for Elo helping to run the family church with her more faithful and dutiful sister, Efezino Zino Obrukhe. How could Elo know that this offer would lead to seismic changes in her relationships with her overlooked sister Zino, with her potential soulmate Didi, and with her own fledgling faith?China today is both a land of opportunity for Africans blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America, and an intersection of racism and prejudice.?
Noo Saro-Wiwa goes in search of Chinas Black Ghosts, African economic migrants in the Peoples Republic, who live in clustered communities and are involved in the small-commodity trade between the continents. Her fascinating encounters include a cardiac surgeon, a drug dealer, a visa overstayer and men married to Chinese women who speak English with Nigerian accents.
