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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jamiu Akolade Adeyemi is a poet, essayist, playwright, novelist, lawyer and activist, whose works generally criticize the vagaries of the brooding vices in our modern world. Born in Erin-Ile, in the Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State-Nigeria, he had toured the different regions of the country which had given him the foresight for the normalization of the growing ills of the universe. He had published Letter to Tyranny (A selection of Poems), Destiny out of Diligence (A Novel) and The Child of Nobody is his third published book. His belief looms upon the bitter reality that what is worth living for is worth dying for. He has by his way set down a moving gear towards the creation of a better world that applauds, adores and cherishes the rights of humanity in order to accomplish an atmosphere that frowns at all styles of anomie, tyranny, chaos and indecencies within the orbit of our tumultuous modern world.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A didactic play that frowns at adolescent love affair and promiscuous lifestyles, set in Nigeria, the Child of Nobody recounts the life of two young characters who pretend to fall in love with each other: Meimunat, the eldest daughter of a litigious lawyer and Babatunde, the only son of a gregarious school principal. Their relationship however collapses into a double jeopardy, when both characters dance beyond the stage and become fornicators. Then the two families become fiercely combative. With The Child of Nobody, Jamiu Akolade Adeyemi expresses himself as a most talented playwright. More than just a play, the book condemns major acts of indecency, anomie and mischief queuing up on the sides of stakeholders and government, both parents and children.