The Triangle

Description

The Triangle is a life story of a young Ebuka of South East extraction. He travelled to the North for the compulsory one year National Youth Service programme with a lot of cultural stereotypes and religious biases which he later found to be untrue.

His relationship with Aisha’ family pulled off those scales from his eyes, placing him rather on a better pedestal to see  Igbo,  Hausa, Yoruba,  Christian, Moslem etc as one, a diversity that should foster unity, peace and joy, not war, not tribalism and fanaticism.

Though Ebuka had a serious relationship with Oge before he left for service, he was able to keep to his promise, maintained decency and integrity even when he had the opportunity on a platter to have a fling with both Amaka who lived under same roof with him the whole of his NYSC period and Aisha who he found appealing though of different cultural and religious background.

The Triangle is a book that speaks about decency, integrity and unity.  It deconstructs the inimical walls of cultural and religious serotypes and paints them with the colour of mere distraction that shouldn’t be given the oxygen to thrive and blossom around us.

The book leaves the reader with one single message of real love not being tribal, cultural, neither is it religious.  It is rather pure, decent, godly and selfless. It is a must read for all, the message is universal though contextualised within the Nigeria cultural and religious background. We are in a period when tribal sentiments, religious fanaticism and nepotism are the brand.  The Triangle is an antithesis of all that, a gospel we should all preach dispassionately.