Witches Brew and Other Stories

Witches Brew and Other Stories is a collection of short stories that span many cultural and contemporary beliefs and topics. Crossed Bones chronicles what a boy-soldier in the Nigeria-Biafra war thought was fun only to be confronted by horrors of unimaginable proportions. Even in the snippet he narrates, it s still difficult to put into words what he saw and experienced. A trauma that is his daily existence. Deception explores a contemporary distressing phenomenon rocking the West African immigrants in America which has led to a slew of killings and suicides. The Witches Brew taps into various cultural issues: from the way widows are handed over to the dead husband s brother as if she were property, to the old quest for the elixir for long life and its repercussions. This book covers a wide range of issues that many will find interesting.