The Death of Vivek Oji

They torched the marketplace on the day that Vivek Oji passed away. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find her son’s body wrapped in akwete material and laid out on her veranda, with his head resting on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji takes us back to the day Vivek was born, the day his grandma Ahunna passed away. It is the narrative of a mother who is overprotective and a father who is emotionally aloof, as well as the heartbreaking story of one family’s battle to comprehend their child, just as Vivek learns to identify himself. Replete with intriguing individuals whose lives have been affected by Vivek’s kind and enigmatic nature, it defies our preconceptions about Nigerian childhood. All who read this book will be moved by its celebration of the purity and optimism of youth.