THAT CHILD by Nnamdi Agbakoba
The story of Chudi is based on a true story-the true life experince of a fifteen year old boy called Jonathan. Jonathan is an inmate of the arrows of God Orphanage located in Lagos Nigeria and this book narrates in graphic detail the life of Jonathan since the age of 2 as depicted by the lead chracther Chudi. 'That Child' tells a story of homelessness, cruelty, despair and courage never befor narrated of a Nigerian child. The book exposes the kind of inhumane torture children in most developing countries are subjected to at the hans of family members and foster homes.
During the course of his life, Chudi lived in several homes until creulty and wickedness of Aunt Ebere, a giant of a woman with a pair of brown blazing eyes, devoid of any love or compassion forced him to run away from a cruel home and into the streets of Aba,an Eastern city in Nigeria where street crime and armed robbery is rife. While he lived under an old abandoned bridge with about a dozen street boys-the Don, Uche and Kelvin, Chudi took to petty thefts,begging in the streets and washing car windshilds for a few pennies.
After about six months of this hurrid life, an unexpectede tragedy occured; A most terrifying and unprecedented bad-luck befell Chudi at the Aba motor park and he soon mysteriously found himself back in Aunt Ebere's house of horrow. While back in captivity,yet again, Chudi found another mind boggling and amazing thing begin to unfold in his life. The kind of amazing stuff that can only be the work of angels from Heaven . Thereafter, one sudden twist led to another sudden twist,all wrapped then unravelled in the mystery of the dead goats and chuckling chickens and the creepy secrets of the fifty bundles of fire wood stashed at the back of the van bringing the story of Chudi to an unprecedented and unbelievable climax.
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